It is a sort of purgatory." Duprez shook his fingers emphatically in the air.
"Ah, bah!" he said; "what droll things remain still in the world! Yes, in spite of liberty, equality, fraternity! You do not believe in foolish legends, Mademoiselle?
For example,--do you think you will suffer purgatory ?" "Indeed yes!" she replied.

"No one can be good enough to go straight to heaven.

There must be some little stop on the way in which to be sorry for all the bad things one has done." "'Tis the same idea as ours," said Gueldmar.

"We have two places of punishment in the Norse faith; one, _Nifleheim_, which is a temporary thing like the Catholic purgatory; the other _Nastrond_, which is the counterpart of the Christian hell.

Know you not the description of _Nifleheim_ in the _Edda_?
--'tis terrible enough to satisfy all tastes.
'Hela, or Death rules over the Nine Worlds of Nifleheim.