In Dante Allighieri's Interno Malebolge is the eighth circle of Hell, a large, funnel-shaped cavern divided into ten concentric circular ditches. Here the fraudulent are punished, "from top to bottom: the seducers whipped by demons... the flatterers adrift in human excrement... the clerical profiteers half buried upside down with their legs in the air... the sorcerers with their heads twisted backward... the corrupt politicians in boiling pitch... the hypocrites wearing heavy leaden cloaks... the thieves bitten by snakes... the fraudulent counselors consumed by fire... the sowers of discord hacked apart by demons... and finally, the liars, who are diseased beyond recognition."
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