‘. . . that we mortals should dread the tomb—that’s only natural. And it’s when we are nearing the end that what may be called the real take...

Καθεύδοντα καὶ νεκρὸν, τὸν ἐν ἁμαρτίαις φησί. Καὶ γὰρ δυσωδίας πνεῖ, ὡς  ὁ νεκρὸς, καὶ ἀνενέργητός ἐστιν, ὡς ὁ καθεύδων, καὶ οὐδὲν ὁρᾷ, ὡς ...

According to Jochelson (1), among the Koryak there exist two conceptions of the abode of the departed. One soul of the deceased may rise to...

De Lingua etiam et sermone Mortuorum oriuntur quaestiunculae. Mortuorum Dialogos finxere multi, sed qua lingua colloquuntur mortui, nescio....

On the 14th of May [1692], he embarked at Solikamskoi, and crossing the little River of Usolkat, half a League from this City, he entered t...

Le cimetière oriental est une des belles choses de l'Orient. Il n'a pas ce caractère profondément agaçant que je trouve chez nous à ...

Mets ton masque Sokolov, que tes fermentations anaérobies fassent éclater les tubas de ta renommée et que tes vents irrépressibles transfor...

Mais bientôt les bizarreries s’accusèrent davantage, et il devenait parfois difficile de les excuser, car elles sortaient du domaine de la...

Politian (Angelo de'Ambrosini da Monte Pulciano) (1454-1494) O mihi quanta datis fallacia gaudia, somni! Invideo, Endymion, Latmia...

Aeschylus in Sicilia moenibus urbis, in qua morabatur, egressus, aprico in loco resedit: super quem aquila testudinem ferens, elusa splendor...

Etenim oculi, qui nunc colorum venustatem, concinnasque membrorum symmetrias studiose demirantur, multaque quae referre non lubet, nec lic...

Q. An Tartarus sit aliquid, utrum vero nihil? R. Est aliquid nempe locus cruciatus Luc. 6 [sic.]. Est nihil de quo Plato in Phaedone. Sic ᾅδ...

That then there is damnation, and why it is, and when it is, is cleare enough; but what this damnation is, neither the tongue of good Angels...

Doctrina XII , De timore et poenis inferni (Migne, Patrologia Graeca , 88, 1752) Through the body, the soul is distracted from its pa...

As to those that fall away from God, I wonder where it is they exist, those that are far removed from Him that is everywhere, and verily, ...

Depiction of the torments of the damned in the Buddhist sub-hell of Nyôfunjo (Dung Pit), or the shifunsho (place of excrement), one of ...

I fall sick of Sin , and am bedded and bedrid, buried and putrified in the practise of Sin, and all this while have no presage, no pulse, no...

Осип Мандельштам Osip Mandelștam Мне холодно. Прозрачная весна В зеленый пух Петрополь одевает, Но, как медуза, невская волна Мне ...

Johannes Ravisius, in his Officinae epitome (Seb. Gryphius: Lyon, 1560), gives an extensive catalogue of famous cases of unnatural death r...