Scheol

[252-1] Scheol is from a Hebrew word, signifying to dig, to hide in the earth.

The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

The original meaning of the name given by Cogolludo points unmistakably to the simple fact of disappearance from among men, and corresponds in harmlessness to the true sense of those words of fear, Scheol, Hades,

The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

In Dahome the combination suggests the ghosts of Kutomen going to market, [Footnote: The Akra-men make Sisaman, their Kutomen, Scheol or Hades, a town on one of the Volta holms or somewhere beyond.

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855

The following are the public Scheol-msfters in Bofton Samuel Hunt, A.

A pocket almanack, for the year ... : calculated for the use of the state of Massachusetts-Bay 1779