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The Journey of Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Author: Ramón de Perellós)

section 12

(The second field)

And then they led me to another field where there were more pains than in the first; it was full of various people of various estates and those people were nailed with nails like the others but with another difference and form for these had serpents biting the veins and arteries of their neck and on their bodies they placed their heads on their breasts and in their breasts they planted needles; and there were others who had burning toads and lizards on them with long sharp snouts which broke through their breasts and dragged out their heart from their innards. And these people made the greatest lamentation that they could, which was most terrible. And the devils were running among them, beating them and tormenting them fiercely. And that field was so long that one could not see its end but I did see the width of the field and afterwards the devils said to me:
‘This torment you will suffer if you do not turn back.’

And I said not a word and when I refused to do anything they wished to torment and force me but they could not because of the name of Jesus Christ which I spoke and at once I was free of that danger.