Behind the Folklore - No Rest For The Wicked

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DEMONS/DEMONIC POSSESSION
For info on DEMONIC POSSESSION see our Season 1 Folklore here.

LILITH
For information about LILITH, see Folklore for Jus In Bello.

HELLHOUNDS
More on HELLHOUNDS can be found in our Folklore for Crossroad Blues.

HELL
Hell, according to many religious beliefs, is a location in the afterlife, which may be described as a place of suffering. Hell is usually depicted as underground. Within Christianity and Islam, Hell is traditionally depicted as fiery and painful, inflicting guilt and suffering. Some other traditions, however, portray Hell as cold and gloomy. Existence after life is not concrete in Judaism and may be portrayed as a state of neutrality, an eternal nothingness ("sheol", often translated as Hell), simply non-life.
Despite the common depictions of Hell as a fire, Dante's Inferno portrays the innermost (9th) circle of Hell as a frozen lake of blood and guilt. Hell is often portrayed as populated with demons, who torment the damned. Many are ruled by a death god, such as Nergal, the Hindu Yama, or concepts of the Christian Satan. In contrast to Hell, other general types of afterlives are abodes of the dead and paradises. Abodes of the dead are neutral places for all the dead (for example, see sheol), rather than prisons of punishment for sinners. A paradise is a happy afterlife for some or all the dead (for example, see heaven). Modern understandings of Hell often depict it abstractly, as a state of loss rather than as fiery torture literally under the ground.


OTHER REFERENCES
Dean: Hell, she probably wants you to become her little Antichrist Superstar.
Referencing the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, originally released as a rock album in 1970 by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd-Webber then made into a musical.

Dean: What, are you gonna give her the Carrie stare and Lilith goes poof?
Referencing the novel Carrie by Stephen King, which tells the tale of a high school girl with telekinetic powers, who goes berserk during her high school prom and kills most of the students.

Dean: Our slutty little Yoda.
This is a reference to the Jedi Master Yoda from the Star Wars movies. Yoda was famous for often spouting words of wisdom.


Sources: TV.com