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What's the scary folk lore from your culture? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by spez@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Every culture/region has stories and myths about the things existing there. What are the ones you find the most spooky and/or interesting?

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dante's Inferno includes both hot and cold sections of Hell, with the cold ones being deeper (and thus worse)

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, I didn't know it was in Dante too. I'd always been led to believe it was in contrast to Christian versions of hell but he is kind of the definitive picture of a lot of Christian concepts of hell.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the bible never actually physically describes Hell in that way. The depiction of it that most people are familiar with is straight out of the Divine Comedy. I'm pretty sure the bible doesn't describe devils with red horns and pitchforks either. And it definitely doesn't describe angels as sexy humans with bird wings (more like Lovecraftian horrors)

I grew up Catholic and I was taught that Hell isn't even really a place you can go, it's more like the punishment of not going to heaven. Not sure if that's canon though, I haven't gone to church in like a decade.

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

There's a reason that angels in the Bible are always screaming "BE NOT AFRAID!" when they show up somewhere. It's because they know they look like Cthulhu's nightmares.