And then the devils made a great noise and sound and left the chamber and departed to many places; but quite enough remained for me and they led me into a land laid waste for a long time. And that land was very black and shady and all I saw there were malign spirits who dragged me through the middle of that land; and there was so great a wind but very gentle that one could hardly hear it but it seemed to me that that wind passed through me and traversed my whole body and it was so painful to me that I could not stand it.
And from there on those devils led me towards the east, where the sun rises on the longest days in summer. And when they had gone a little way they turned me there where the sun rose on the shortest days of the year in winter, we came there almost to the end of the world. And there I heard many persons weeping, shouting and groaning and lamenting painfully and hard, that it seemed to me that many folk from all lands were gathered together to mourn; and the further on we came, the stronger we heard and understood their great pain. And from there we came to a great field full of pain and captivity; and I could not see the end because it was so long. And there were men and women of various kinds and estates who were lying on the ground completely naked and altogether stretched out on their bellies; and they were nailed to the ground with burning nails and there lay upon them burning dragons and they were nailed down by their feet and their hands and the dragons were biting them and poking their teeth into the flesh of their bodies as if they were to eat them. And from the great pain that those people were suffering, they many times bit the earth and cried for mercy but they did not find it because the devils were shouting in their midst and from above they tormented them and beat them most cruelly.
And then the devils threatened me with that torment and said to me:
‘Such torment you will have if you do not decide to follow our advice. And we ask nothing more than that you should abandon what you have undertaken and begun and have to do and that you should go back because we will put you outside the gate through which you came in and you will go away without suffering harm.’
And I did not deign to hear them nor did I wish to answer them but it seemed to me that as Our Lord had delivered me from the other torments that he would do the same in this one. And when they saw this, they threw me to the ground to put the nails in my hands and feet; and I called on the name of Jesus Christ son of the living God, at which the devils could not in any way do me harm, quite the contrary I was delivered from that torment which was in that field.