Chapter 70.

1. I also saw the souls of women whom they threw head downwards; (2) and something like a hedgehog, which had iron spikes grown from it, was introduced into the body and dropped back; (3) and from it, a finger dropping the semen of the demons and demonesses, which is stench and corruption, ever went into the inside of the jaws and nose. 4. And I asked thus: 'Who are those souls, who suffer such a punishment?' 5. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (6) thus: 'These are the souls of those wicked women who, in the world, broke promises to their husbands, (7) and they have stayed away from the husband, and been never contented, and granted no cohabitation [i.e.

sex].'