The Bloody Ten Courts of Hell

First Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Violating the code of filial piety ~ Put under heavy slabs and boulders or squeezed in the middle of the grinder
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Second Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Gossiping ~ Having your tongue pierced

Stealing ~ Made to kneel on steel granules

Wickedness ~ Boiled in a cauldron, disemboweled, and put in a volcanic chamber
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Third Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Corruption and greed ~ Handcuffed and beaten

Disobedience and disrespect to elders ~ Have your ribs pierced, body grilled, your lungs, heart, liver, intestines and eyes torn out

Violating and state a Confucian principles or being an unjust official
~ Have your heart removed, knees crushed and face scraped by a mental instrument
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Fourth Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
General Sins ~ Hurled into a torrential river, made to kneel on bamboo spikes, boiled in oil, head struck open

Cheating or evading income taxes ~ Drowned under a heavy stone

Stealing ~ Have your hands sawn off

Breaking promises ~ have your lips split
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Fifth Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Cruelty to animals and friends ~ Have your heart torn out with hooks or thrown onto protruding swords
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In this Sixth Court of Hell, those who have already been punished but are still unrepentant, are punished further. This includes all crimes against any deity or Buddha or breaking any Buddhist or Confucian laws.

Sixth Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Stealing from temples committing blasphemy ~ Made to kneel on iron nails, sawn in two, gnawed by rats

Killing animals ~ Have your body chopped in half
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Seventh Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Rebelling against authorities ~ Torn apart by dogs

Spreading false rumours ~ Have your tongue pulled out

Using drugs, causing quarrels ~ Thrown into a pot of boiling water
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Eighth Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Committing crimes against Confucianism and operating houses for immoral purposes ~ Crushed under carriage wheels, sliced, disemboweled, struck by lighting, and having tongues, arms and legs cut off
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Ninth Court of Hell

Crime Punishment
Smuggling, committing arson ~ Attacked by snakes, stung by bees, tortured or trafficking drugs in boiling oil

Writing or painting erotic literature or scenes ~ Flattened between two planks, have your head crushed in an iron ring, skull steamed, bones scraped and tendons pulled out
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In the Tenth Court of Hell, the President passes his final judgment and the sinner goes through one of the seven-ways in the Wheel of Reincarnation. Shaped like a wheel, wind and clouds billow out from the circle in the centre and the six other circles surrounding it. Depending on the sinner's past life, he will enter a particular way which will determine how he will be reborn.