Circle Seven

Now this is what I call violent. People who, you know, hit people. These malcontents are doomed to wallow in a boiling river of blood, and if they stop wallowing in blood they get shot by centaurs. But hey, at least they get a choice. If the boiling blood gets dull, they can give the centaur pincushion thing a try for a while. Suicides get their souls trapped in trees which bleed when harpies eat them. The suicides can only speak while bleeding, which is much different than being dead. Burning sands and rains of fire are the punishments Blasphemers get or people who offend God. Sodomy is understood here as sexual relations between males and the punishment is Sodomites have to run around the same burning plane on which the blasphemers are lying down. Ursary was similarly condemned, particularly after it was equated with heresy. This is an often-overlooked sin: the sin of charging interest, they have to crouch on the burning plane.