bog wet spongy ground, characterized by decaying mosses that form peat; a small marsh or swamp.
purgatory a state or place in which, in Roman Catholicism and other Christian doctrine, those who have died in the grace of God expiate their sins by suffering.
furies in Greek and Roman mythology, the three terrible female spirits with snaky hair who punish the doers of unavenged crimes.
bawdyhouse a house of prostitution.
