Según muchas religiones, el Infierno (del latín inférnum o ínferus: ‘inferior, subterráneo’) es el lugar donde, después de la muerte, son torturadas eternamente las almas de los pecadores. Es equivalente al Gehena del judaísmo, al Tártaro de la mitología griega, y al Inframundo de otras religiones. En la teología católica, el Infierno es una de las cuatro postrimerías del hombre. No se le considera un lugar sino un estado de sufrimiento. En contraste con el Infierno, otros lugares de existencia después de la muerte pueden ser neutros (por ejemplo, el Sheol judío), o felices (por ejemplo, el Cielo cristiano).

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In many mythological, folklore and religious traditions, hell is a place of torment and punishment in an afterlife. It is viewed by most Abrahamic traditions as punishment. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as eternal destinations. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations. Typically these traditions locate hell in another dimension or under the Earth's surface and often include entrances to Hell from the land of the living. Other afterlife destinations include Heaven, Purgatory, Paradise, and Limbo. Other traditions, which do not conceive of the afterlife as a place of punishment or reward, merely describe hell as an abode of the dead, the grave, a neutral place located under the surface of Earth (for example, see sheol and Hades). Hell is sometimes portrayed as populated with demons who torment those dwelling there. Many are ruled by a death god such as Nergal, Hades, Hel, Enma or the Devil.

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