Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.
That little wronged spirit should have left the nether world and been reborn long ago by now!
Leather-silhouette, “Hell”(Introduction): Eighteen layers of hell of nether world in leather-silhouette legends.
[Formal] grave; the nether world; Hades; the underworld
The nether world is where the souls are managed in Chinese fables.
"She saw in her mind's eye the beautiful embroidered burial shoes presented to her by her niece and felt sure these would make the King of Hell treat her with respect when she went to the nether world.
Properly invoked, these powers can be used to summon demons from the nether world and compel them to fight against their kindred.