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| Stuck in wells and set on fire

| Stuck in wells and set on fire

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| Sorcery and soothsaying

| [[Sorcery]] and soothsaying

| Heads twisted backwards

| Heads twisted backwards

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| Stirring up lawsuits

| Political [[corruption]]

| Immersed in boiling tar

| Immersed in boiling tar

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| Hypocrisy

| [[Hypocrisy]]

| Crushed under lead cloaks

| Crushed under lead cloaks

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| Theft

| [[Theft]]

| Turned into lizards

| Turned into [[lizards]]

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| Evil counsel

| Evil counsel

| Mutilated by demons

| Mutilated by demons

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| Lying and forgery

| [[Deceit]] and [[forgery]]

| Disease

| Disease

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These crimes are known as minor fraud, as distinct from treachery (see below), which is considered a worse form of fraud.

These crimes are known as minor fraud, as distinct from treachery (see below), which is considered a worse form of fraud. The imaginative, cruel and grotesque punishments of the eighth circle provide some of the most enduring images in the Inferno, and are what most people have in mind when they think of the works of Dante.

===The ninth circle: Treachery===

===The ninth circle: Treachery===