Contents Include : Death and the Boy / West African -- Orpheus in the Underworld / Greek -- The Death of Nornagest / Norse -- The Seven Pomegranate Seeds / Greek -- The Wishes of Savitri / Indian -- Nidud the Cruel / Norse -- Five Visions of Hell.
Summary:
When life is over and the conflicted souls of the dead wend their weary way down to the underworld, what do they see? A three-headed dog with slavering jaws, a dark and foreboding river with a skeletal ferryman, or simply darkness? Only the very brave or very foolish will venture down into the realm of the afterlife by choice, and the seldom live to tell the tale.
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