CHAPTER 37

1. I also saw the souls of several men and several women (2) who were suspended, head downwards, in hell; (3) and snakes and scorpions and other noxious creatures (khrafstars) ever gnawed all their bodies. 4. And I asked thus: 'Of which people are these souls?' 5. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (6) thus: 'These are the souls of those people, by whom, in the world, water and fire were not cared for, (7) and corruption was brought to water and fire, and fire was extinguished intentionally.'