Contrapasso

thumb|right|The Contrapasso of the Magician (paranormal)|sorcerers, astrologers, and [[false prophets, illustrated by Stradanus]]

In Dante's Inferno, contrapasso (or, in modern Italian, contrappasso, from Latin and , meaning "suffer the opposite") is the punishment of souls "by a process either resembling or contrasting with the sin itself." A similar process occurs in the Purgatorio.