where did the phrase sam hell come from
an unknown origin
title: Samūm text: an Archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic literature, who envied humanity and in charge of destructive demons, similar to the Islamic legends about demons created from samūm envying Adam. Tabari offers many interpretations for the nature of samūm. In one interpretation he provides, samūm is "hot wind which kills" and in another "the flame of the fire of the hot wind" and yet in another he relates it to "night-wind" in opposition to "harur" (day-wind). Further he states, some hold samūm to be the hell-fire ("nar jahannama"). On the authority of Abu Ubaidah, samūm is the fire that "penetrates the pores title: Camp Douglas (Chicago) text: commanding Company I of the 6th U.S. Volunteer Infantry, he was the only former Confederate prisoner commissioned as an officer. The first use recorded in the "Oxford English Dictionary" of the phrase, to hell in a hand basket, was in "The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details", an 1865 account by I. Windslow Ayer of events surrounding the Camp Douglas Conspiracy. Ayer alleges that, at an August meeting of the Order of the Sons of Liberty, Judge Morris (noted above) said: "Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would ‘send title: Hell text: abode of the dead, the grave, a neutral place located under the surface of Earth (for example, see Sheol and Hades). The modern English word "hell" is derived from Old English "hel", "helle" (first attested around 725 AD to refer to a nether world of the dead) reaching into the Anglo-Saxon pagan period. The word has cognates in all branches of the Germanic languages, including Old Norse "hel" (which refers to both a location and goddess-like being in Norse mythology), Old Frisian "helle", Old Saxon "hellia", Old High German "hella", and Gothic "halja". All forms ultimately derive from the reconstructed title: Christian views on Hell text: realm of eternal punishment in Hellenistic mythology was "Tartarus", "Hades" was a form of limbo for the unjudged dead. Three different New Testament words appear in most English translations as "Hell": The most common New Testament term translated as "Hell" is ("gehenna"), a direct loan of Hebrew גהנום/גהנם ("ge-hinnom"). Apart from one use in , this term is found exclusively in the synoptic gospels. "Gehenna" is most frequently described as a place of fiery torment (e.g., Matthew 5:22, 18:8-9; Mark 9:43-49); other passages mention darkness and "weeping and gnashing of teeth" (e.g., Matthew 8:12; 22:13). Apart from the use of title: Sam Hall (song) text: Sam Hall (song) “Sam Hall” is an old English folk song about a bitterly unrepentant criminal condemned to death (Roud #369). Prior to the mid-19th century it was called “Jack Hall”, after an infamous English thief, who was hanged in 1707 at Tyburn. Jack Hall’s parents sold him as a climbing boy for one guinea, which is why most versions of the song identify Sam or Jack Hall as a chimney sweep. Prior to 1988, the song had been collected from about 18 singers in the oral tradition, limited to Ireland, England and the USA, and there had been only