From this tower
all passes before them as a lurid dream and they are stricken in heart.
About the fifth court are sixteen small hells where the soul is
punished. In each one are stakes buried in the ground and fierce
animals. The hands and feet of the guilty one are bound to a stake, his
body is opened with small knives, and his heart and intestines quickly
devoured.
In each of these sixteen hells is a certain type of sinner: (1) Those
who do not reverence the gods and demons and who doubt the existence of
rewards and punishments; (2) those who hurt and kill living beings; (3)
those who break their vows to do good; (4) those who resort to heterodox
practices and vainly hope to attain eternal life; (5) those who upbraid
good men, fear the wicked and hate men because they do not die speedily;
(6) those who strive with other people and then put the blame upon them;
(7) men who force women; and women who seduce young men, and all who
have libidinous desires; (8) those who gain profit for themselves by
injuring others; (9) the stingy and those who absolutely disregard
others, whether alive or dead, giving them no help in dire need, when
they can do so without injury to themselves; (10) those who steal and
put the crime upon others; (11) those who requite favors with hate; (12)
those whose hearts are perverse and poisonous, who instigate others to
do wrong even if they may not have carried out their suggestion; (13)
those who tempt others by deceit; (14) those who involve others in their
squabbles and in gambling and then themselves win out; (15) those who
stubbornly persist in their false ideas, do not repent, and slander
others; (16) those who hate good and virtuous men.
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