world of the dead
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Nigeria's hugely successful movie industry, known as Nollywood, often produces films featuring people consulting traditional priests who claim the ability to see into the past, future and the world of the dead.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2023
Lyra tries to hug her friend Roger in the world of the dead, but he passes “like cold smoke through her arms”.
From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2021
Orpheus also voyaged to the world of the dead to seek for his dead wife, just as Lyra journeys there to rescue Roger.
From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2015
Unlike the ghost in a horror story, Macdonald’s hawk will not drag her into the world of the dead.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2015
The later poets define the world of the dead more and more clearly as the place where the wicked are punished and the good rewarded.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
