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be known that some of them who are punished in
lamma-locon win forth therefrom after that they have
been therein for the space that was ordained them for
their sins; and having passed this space, they them-
selves come again to this world and enter into one or
another body. Howbeit, some of them that fare to hell,
win not forth, but must be punished there to all eter-
nity, and these are they that fare unto Antam tappes,
that is, the pit of darkness. They say that this is a
dark pit, which is called Antam tappes because of its
darkness; and that they who fall therein never win
forth from it, but ever abide there, yet without dying;
and that there they must endure all manner of pains
and torments. There, they say, are thorns; there are
crows with iron beaks; there are savage dogs; there
are gnats that bite cruelly; cold, and all that may serve
for the increase of pain and torment.
Let us now go investigate also what they believe
concerning the state of them who are blessed after their
death. Here it must be known that some of them may
come again to this world after their death, when that
a certain definite space of years be passed; and that
some never return, but win to eternal and everlasting
beatitude. For them that depart hence but may come
again to this world, they say there are seven places,
which are Indre-locon or Dewendre-locon, Agni-locon,
Niruti-locon, Wajouvia-locon, Cubera-locon, Isanja-lo-
con, and Warrouna-locon. Each of these places is
named after the head who ruleth over it. They say
that in each of these places they who win to them
