Beginning in Limbo, he travels through the circles of Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Wrath, Heresy, Violence, and Fraud, to the horrific ninth circle of Treachery, where sinners are trapped under the watchful eyes of Satan himself.
Then she remembered with a sick dropping in her stomach how few Confederates there were and how many men Sherman had and how well fed they were. Sherman! The name of Satan himself did not frighten her half so much.
Jesus Christ, Mary Mother of Satan's left nipple, it's like my hand is made entirely out of urethras, and each and every one is having a red hot catheter put in and ripped out five times every second.
2000's O Brother, Where Art Thou saw the trio of prison fugitives led by George Clooney coming across one Tommy Johnson, who, you guessed it, sold his soul to Satan to be able to play the guitar.
Yet, instead of blaming herself for the issue she laid the fault upon the shoulders of some indistinct, colossal Prince of the World, who had framed her situation and ruled her lot.
The days kept getting longer and longer, the weather was unusually variable and so were tempers; an unsettled feeling possessed everyone, and Satan found plenty of mischief for the idle hands to do.
Thousands of militiamen and other supporters chanting " America is the great Satan" marched in a funeral procession in Baghdad for Iran's top general, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike.
Read any story or myth about hell, whether it's Tantalus, or Sisyphus, or Satan, and you'll hear the same story: someone wants something but can never have it.
Rushdie's 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, resulted in Iran declaring a fatwa, or death order, against him because the book was regarded by some Muslims as blasphemous.