History NightmareFuel / TheDivineComedy

** In the first ditch, the panderers and seducers are forced to march in single file around the circumference of their circle, constantly lashed by horned demons.
** In the second ditch, flatterers are forced to wade forever in human waste.
** In the third ditch, simoniacs are punished by being half buried with their legs sticking up in the air and their feet burned. No new holes are created, so whenever a new sinner enters, the sinner below is pushed deeper into the hole.

*** The exceptions are Caiaphas, Annas, and the Sanhedrin. They are crucified on the ground while all of the other hypocrites trample them.

** In the eighth ditch, deceivers who gave false advice are punished by being burned in individual tongues of flame.

* The nightmare fuel doesn't stop when Dante and Virgil leave Hell. When visiting the second terrace of Purgatory, meant for the [[GreenEyedMonster envious]], they see that the souls in it ''[[EyeScream have their eyes sewn shut]]''.

** In the sixth ditch, hypocrites are forced to walk around while wearing heavy robes made of lead.

** In the fifth ditch, {{CorruptPolitician}}s are boiled in a huge lake of tar. If they dare break the surface to get some relief from the heat, the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Malebranche devils]] stab them with pitchforks until they go back under. If they're ''really'' unlucky, the Malebranche devils will "fish" them out of the tar and mutilate them personally, as Dante sees happen to one unfortunate soul.

** In the fifth ditch, grafters are tossed into a river of boiling tar. Should they try to escape, imps will stab at them with pitchforks.

** The most disturbing part about the Ninth Circle? You can come here before you die. Some traitors have committed acts so vile that their souls are ''immediately'' dragged out of their bodies and down into the ice while the vacant shell you left behind [[DemonicPossession is occupied by a demon]]. Dante learns this when he meets Friar Alberigo, a man he knows back on Earth who's still alive yet is already half-frozen.

** In the sixth ditch, hypocrites are forced to walk around while wearing heavy robes made of lead. The exception is Caiaphas, who is crucified to the ground while all of the other hypocrites trample on him.

** The most disturbing part about the Ninth Circle? You don't come here when you die. The moment you commit an act vile enough that it lands you here, your soul is ''immediately'' dragged out of your body and down into the ice while the vacant shell you left behind [[DemonicPossession is occupied by a demon]]. Dante learns this when he meets Friar Alberigo, a man he knows back on Earth who's still alive yet is already half-frozen.

** In the sixth ditch, hypocrites are forced to walk around while wearing heavy robes made of lead.

** In the fourth ditch, astrologers, sorcerers, and seers have their heads twisted backwards, forcing them to walk in reverse. The pain causes them to try until they are blind.

** In the third ditch, simoniacs are punished by being half buried with their legs sticking up in the air and their feet burned.
** In the fourth ditch, astrologers, sorcerers, and seers have their heads twisted backwards, forcing them to walk in reverse.

** In the eighth ditch, deceivers who gave false advice are punished by being burned in individual columns of fire.

* The Sixth Circle of Hell, which contains the City of Dis, is a massive fortress made of stone coffins where heretical souls are on fire. Because of their heresy, they're trapped in burning tombs.

* The Fifth Circle, meant for people who succumbed to anger and sorrow, is filled with inhabitants so controlled by their emotions that they alternate between mindlessly attacking every person around them and hopelessly sinking to the bottom of the Circle's filthy waters. This see-saw of destruction and despair continues for eternity.

** The third ring is meant to punish those violent against God, art, and nature. It's a huge, sandy desert where fire constantly rains down from the sky. Eternally wandering across the burning sand is bad enough, but if you ever stop to rest on the sand, you'll be stuck in that position for ''a hundred years.''

** In the eighth ditch, deceivers who gave false advice are punished by having their tongues forever burned.

* {{Satan}} himself is pretty terrifying. While he's nearly mindless and doesn't even notice Dante and Virgil, he's still {{Kaiju}} size (Dante states that the giants they met before would only be about as big as his arm) and has [[MultipleHeadCase three heads.]]

** On the path between the Sixth and Seventh Circles, Dante and Vergil come across a large vault with an inscription that reads "I hold Pope Anastasius, enticed to leave the true path by Photinus." [[NothingIsScarier We never learn what's happening to him in there.]]

** In the first ditch, the panderers and seducers are forced to march, single file around the circumference of their circle, constantly lashed by horned demons.

** In the sixth ditch, hypocrites are forced to walk around with heavy robes made of lead.
** In the seventh ditch, thieves are punished by having snakes forever bite them. Those who get bitten ''explode'' but they always regenerate.

* The entrance to the Ninth Circle is guarded by [[OurGiantsAreBigger 30-to-35-foot-tall giants,]] mostly from ''Myth/GreekMythology''. Even after all he's seen in Hell, Dante is rather freaked out by this, and even says that he's glad giants don't exist on Earth anymore, and that the only big creatures that still exist are relatively harmless ones like whales and elephants.

** Some people aren't just trapped in the lake, but frozen together. Dante and Virgil come across a count who was condemned to a dungeon by an archbishop for betraying Pisa. While that was an act of betrayal, the archbishop also betrayed ''him'' by throwing his sons in too, who it's implied the count [[ImAHumanitarian ate to survive]]. Their punishment is to be frozen together, with the count ''eating the archbishop's head forever.''

* The Third Circle, reserved for those who over-indulged in food, drink, and addictions in the world above, placing such things above all things including their fellow man, forced to slosh around forever in the vile muck that made up most of the circle.

* Limbo, First Circle of Hell, is rather benign compared to the others, as it's home to those pagans who weren't quite bad enough to get into hell proper, but it is still Hell.. And children who weren't baptized end up here.

* The Third Circle, reserved for those who over-indulged in food, drink and addictions in the world above, placing such things above all things including their fellow man, forced to slosh around forever in the vile muck that made up most of the circle.

* The Sixth Circle of Hell, which contains the City of Dis, a massive fortress made of stone coffins where heretical souls are on fire. Because of their heresy, they're trapped in burning tombs.

* The Seventh Circle, appropriately for punishing the violent, has some very brutal punishments.

** In the fourth ditch, astrologers, sorcerers and seers have their heads twisted backwards, forcing them to walk in reverse.

** In the eighth ditch, deceivers who gave false advise are punished by having their tongues forever burned.

* The entrance to the Ninth Circle is guarded by [[OurGiantsAreBigger 30-35 foot tall giants,]] mostly from ''Myth/GreekMythology''. Even after all he's seen in Hell, Dante is rather freaked out by this, and even says that he's glad giants don't exist on Earth anymore, and that the only big creatures that still exist are relatively harmless ones like whales and elephants.

** The most disturbing part about the Ninth Circle? You don't come here when you die. The moment you commit an act vile enough that it lands you here, your soul is ''immediately'' dragged out of your body and down into the ice, while the vacant shell you left behind [[DemonicPossession is occupied by a demon]]. Dante learns this when he meets Friar Alberigo, a man he knows back on Earth who's still alive, yet is already half-frozen.
* The final part of the Inferno, where the three worst traitors, Judas, Brutus, and Cassius, are being eternally chewed in {{Satan}}'s three mouths in the very center of hell.
* {{Satan}} himself is pretty terrifying. While he's nearly mindless and doesn't even notice Dante and Virgil, he's still {{Kaiju}} size (Dante states that the giants they met before would only be about as big as his arm), and has [[MultipleHeadCase three heads.]]

** The third ring is meant to punish those violent against God, art, and nature. It's a huge, sandy desert where fire constantly rains down from the sky.