Underworld

  1. Noun.  (paganism) A name for the realm of ancestors in Heathenry.
  2. Noun.  That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice.
  3. Noun.  (mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.

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