It has been called “the garment of ignorance, the foundation of vice, the bonds of corruption, the dark cage, the living death, the sentient corpse, the portable tomb. ”
E kanë quajtur trupin « veshja që fsheh pagdhendjen, themeli i vesit, vargonjtë e korrupsionit, kafazi i errët, vdekja e gjallë, kufoma që ndien, varri portativ ».