The third circle of Hell: Gluttony In the third circle, the souls of those who indulged in voracious feasting and appetite are tortured. Putrefying modern living filled the whole landscape. Just as Lust has revealed its true colors in the winds of the previous circle, here the slush explains the true nature of sensuality. In fact, the icy and violent storm punishes souls which hold foul decaying sludge and mud onto them. The Storm also rained human wastes and worms upon them. They forced them to gurgle around in the solid waste and soil. However, the monstrous dog beasts with three heads also existed in this circle. The souls are tormented not only for their overindulged excessive eating and drinking. But also for their other addictions. However, Virgil obtains safe passage past the monster by filling its three mouths with mud. According to Dante’s Inferno 9 Circles of Hell, Dante converses with a Florentine contemporary identified as Ciacco, which means hog. Further, a character with the same nickname later appears in The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio.