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Chapter 81. [Adultery and sorcery]
tr. Martin Haug and E. W. West (1872)
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1. Then I saw the soul of a woman whose tongue was cut away, and eyes scooped out; (2) and snakes, scorpions, worms, and other noxious creatures (khrafstars) ever devoured the brain of her head; (3) and from time to time, she seized her own body with the teeth, and ever gnawed the flesh. 4. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body?' 5. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (6) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked woman who was, in her lifetime, an adultress. (7) she also practised much sorcery; and much mischief emanated from her.