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Hell
Hell (or Hela), a daughter of the Norse God Loki, was cast by Odin into Niffleheim, The realm of darkness, and givin power over nine worlds or regions, into which she distributes those who are sent to her; that is, all who die of sickness or old age. Her hall is called Elvidnia. Hunger is her table, Starvation her knife, Delay her man, Slowness her maid, Precipice her threshold, Care her bed, and Burning-anguish forms the hangings of her apartments. She may easily be recognized for her body is half flesh-color and half blue, and she has a dreadfully stern and forbidding countenance.
Persephone, the Greek Goddess of the underworld, was very different. She was so beautiful that Pirithous tried to make off with her
