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“Up from the mouth of each hole there stuck out a sinner’s feet and legs up to the calf, the rest of him remained stuffed down inside.  The soles of both feet blazed all on fire.  The leg-joints wriggled uncontrollably and would have snapped any rope or tether.  Just as a flame on anything that’s oily spreads only on the object’s outer surface, so did this fire move from heel to toe…”

The Divine Comedy (1320), Inferno: Canto 19  – Dante Alighieri