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CHAPTER 24
tr. Martin Haug and E. W. West (1872)
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1. I also saw the soul of a woman (2) who was suspended, by the breasts, to hell; (3) and its noxious creatures (khrafstars) seized her whole body. 4. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body, whose soul suffers such a punishment?' 5. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (6) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked woman who, in the world, left her own husband, (7) and gave herself to other men, and committed adultery.'