Funny Holidays - Hell is Freezing Over Day

For residents of the Northern Hemisphere, January frosts, snowstorms and blizzards cause a lot of trouble The expression “hell cold” is often used to describe the internal sensations of the winter cold The oxymoron arose by analogy with the underworld, which most of us associate with heat, heat and fire, in which sinners are tortured In winter, frost literally penetrates to the bones of residents of Alaska, Yakutia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Kazakhstan and the mountainous regions of Italy, where thermometers drop to -4170 °C Therefore, January 31 is celebrated as Hell's Cold Day The fun Hell is Freezing Over Day holiday makes people think not only about harsh climates and adverse weather conditions, but also about life after death Many people imagine hell as a kind of purgatory in which devils fry people in frying pans St Augustine spoke of the underworld as a place where fire torments the bodies and souls of sinners If we turn to the poem by Dante Alighieri, we get a different impression about hell, the place of residence of demons The great Italian poet describes in the “Divine Comedy” the afterlife, consisting of 9 circles of hell: “In the very center of the Underworld is the icy Lake Cocytus Like in Viking hell, it is incredibly cold here Apostates frozen in the ice rest here” Similar description The afterlife is contained in a hadith - a legend about the Prophet Muhammad from Abu Hurayrat: “ the most severe cold in winter is the second exhalation from a place in hell where punishments occur with the intense cold “zamharir” The English language has a lot of idiomatic expressions that enrich speech and make it more figurative Thus, the phraseological unit “When hell freezes over” (“When hell freezes over”) is used to denote something that will never happen Those who celebrate Hell's Cold Day resort to one trick In honor of the funny celebration, people do things that were planned for “when the cancer whistles on the mountain” or even “after the rain on Thursday” January 31 is an excellent occasion to do something that you have never promised to do before and under any circumstances In Christianity, the underworld is a fiery hyena, a place of torment for the souls of sinners after death Islamic scholars and theologians (Ibnu Rajab, Ibn Abbas and others) talk about hell as a place where people’s bones break with a crunch due to severe cold, and their bodies are torn into pieces from the frost The method of posthumous punishment for Muslim apostates and sinners is zamharir - very strong cold Therefore, instead of a figurative name for the holiday, Hell is Freezing Over Day, it takes on a literal meaning