The large woman in the foreground, with her suit of armour, sword, cutlery and money-box has been variously interpreted as a symbol of heresy or violence, the personification of human evil and an allegory of instability.
While her female followers loot a house, Griet advances towards the mouth of Hell through a landscape populated by Boschian monsters. They represent the sins that are punished there. Griet wears male armour - a breastplate, a mailed glove and a metal cap; her military costume is parodied by the monster in a helmet beside her, who pulls up a drawbridge. A knife hangs from her side, while in her right hand she carries a sword, which may refer to the saying: 'He could go to Hell with a sword in his hand'.
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