They tortured their victims with brass-studded scourges and inflicted plagues. Malnutrition was rife and brought with it scourges of tuberculosis and dysentery. In their hands they carry brass-studded scourges, and their victims die in torment. Pokhlyobkin suggests that both prohibition and drunkenness are scourges which encourage one another. Scourges and sponges are not carried openly or displayed in homes after the rite. At the end of the century two new vine scourges emerged. Soon after, the Seven Scourges took place upon Earth. Part of the face, the aureole and the three scourges are visible.