Circles 1-4
Opportunists
Run behind a circling banner; stung by wasps and hornets; drip blood, pus, and tears which are consumed by worms and maggots.
Wrathful
Tear at one another in a slimy swamp.
Panderers and Seducers
Marched around by horned demons with whips.
Hypocrites
Wear heavy leaden robes brilliantly gilded on the outside.
Virtuous Pagans
Live in a passive state of sadness and hopelessness.
Heretics
Lie in open tombs surrounded by walls of fire.
Flatterers
Sunk in a river of excrement.
Thieves
In a pit full of reptiles; snakes bind their limbs; when bitten they burst into flame; some are in reptile form and some are in human form and when the former bite the latter they switch.
Carnal
Whirled and swept around by wind.
Violent Against Neighbors
In a river of boiling blood; shot at by centaurs with bows and arrows.
Simoniacs
Stuck upside down in mock baptismal fonts; soles of their feet are on fire.
Evil Counselors
Hidden from view inside flames.
Gluttons
Lie in putrid slush; assailed by hailstones, dirty water, and black snow; eaten by Cerberus, a three-headed dog.
Violent Against Themselves
Turned into trees; torn at by harpies; can only speak through the bloody holes the harpies tear in their bark.
Fortune Tellers and Diviners
Heads turned backwards on their bodies.
Sowers of Discord
Hacked to pieces by a sword-wielding demon.
Hoarders and Wasters
Strain against enormous weights, which they roll towards and then away from one another.
Violent Against God, Nature, and Art
In a burning desert; rained on by flakes of fire.
Grafters
Sunk in boiling pitch; when they rise above the surface, torn at by demons with claws and hooks.
Falsifiers
Afflicted in every sense: darkness, stench, thirst, filth, disease, and noise.