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** This gets references in ''The Owl Service'' by Alan Garner, which provides an [[Alternative Character Interpretation]] for {{spoiler|Blodeuedd}}. Blodeuedd was a woman who was made of flowers by Gwydion so [[Arranged Marriage|his nephew could have a wife]], and she was turned into an owl because of [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage|a certain trope being heavily averted]]. This actually is a plot point, and to break the curse afflicting the main characters {{spoiler|Blodeuedd must be freed of this curse.}}
* While any version of Hell is bad in [[Buddhism]], they are supposed to be places of purification as well as punishment, and damned souls can at least hope to be reborn again someday. However, Buddhism has a special one called Avichi, which is for souls that are so evil, they're kicked out of the reincarnation cycle completely. That only happens to those who commit one of [[This Is Unforgivable!| the Five Grave Offenses]] which is limited to killing an Arhat (an enlightened being), shedding the blood of the Buddha, creating a schism within the Sangha, (a community of [[Actual Pacifist| pacifist Buddhist monks and nuns]]), or murdering one of your parents. Most Buddhist monks consider it taboo to publicly condemn a man to Avichi, as it would be making a judgment mortals have no right to make; even the will of gods cannot condemn a man to this Hell. Buddhist dogma specifically states that [[Self-Inflicted Hell| a sinner forges his own path here.]]
== [[Print Media]] ==
* ''[[MAD]]'' magazine #200 has "Rime of the Modern Skateboarder", a parody of ''[[Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]''; in this case, the narrator's is a young skateboarder who lived through something similar to the Ancient Mariner, with a gopher in place of the albatross. His audience falls asleep, given how boring the poem supposedly is, and the Skateboarder explains why his Fate (much like the Mariner's) is worse than death:
{{quote|''For though I've Lived through my ordeal and ditched the gopher too,
And have the finest skateboard known, one thing still makes me blue.
I'm doomed through life to tell my tale, so ghastly and unreal...
If you've been bored to hear it once, just think how I must feel.''}}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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