An analogy to purgatory can be traced in most religions.
No one knows how severe or how long a Purgatory was, or is, implied in a hundred days of canonical penance."
He painted in lurid colours the terrors of purgatory, while he dwelt on the cheapness of the indulgence which would purchase remission and his prices were lowered as each sale approached its end.
Tetzel's efforts irretrievably damaged the complicated and abstruse Catholic doctrine on the subject of indulgences; as soon as the coin clinks in the chest, he cried, the soul is freed from purgatory.
In later Judaism it was the purgatory of faithless Jews, who at last reached Paradise, but it.