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More punishments of the damned: hail and firestones, flames, and (for the usurers) boiling wells.

MS. Douce 134, fols 103v, 105v, 121r: https://t.co/Zr1RBzqPRv

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Next up: Lucifer, the prince of hell, surrounded by lesser devils. Are they breathing fire or spitting blood?

MS. Douce 134, fol. 98r: https://t.co/3FOESucGR5

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A king languishes in a pool of fire and brimstone.

MS. Douce 134, fol. 87r: https://t.co/3WvraUDoiG

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The lecherous are punished with your standard pit of fire, courtesy of delicately shaded devils.

MS. Douce 134, fol. 86r: https://t.co/pkEGeZy7rt

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Next up, the slothful and avaricious. The slothful are eaten by eagles and dragons; the avaricious (including a pope and other church figures) are boiled in cauldrons.

MS. Douce 134, ff. 84v-85r: https://t.co/gjyWRAUyvk

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The wrathful are stabbed and stoned by devils who look rather like dragons and stone gargoyles respectively.

MS. Douce 134, fol. 84r: https://t.co/18Hxb7nhmb

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The envious, meanwhile, are punished by devils with pitchforks and alternating ice and fire baths.

MS. Douce 134, fol. 83v: https://t.co/e8F9U1qYDo

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Here, the souls of the proud and vainglorious are broken on a wheel by a devil straight out of Where the Wild Things Are.

MS. Douce 134, fol. 83r: https://t.co/Z7U3ds5HDS

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Next, the sinners and devils are accused, judged and, according to Christ's speech scroll on fol. 76r, sentenced to "depart cursed into the eternal fire".

MS. Douce 134, fols. 74r, 75r and 76r https://t.co/liJAi2SohT

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...but our favourite is this one, where Lucifer, flanked by devils, is judged by Christ, who sits on a rainbow. Count Lucifer's heads.

MS. Douce 134, fol. 67v https://t.co/3XvDh484yt

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