_Helena_, a young Athenian lady, in love with Demētrius. She was the playmate of Her´mia, with whom she grew up, as “two cherries on one stalk.” Egēus (_3 syl._), the father of Hermia, promised his daughter in marriage to Demetrius; but when Demetrius saw that Hermia loved Lysander, he turned to Helena, who loved him dearly, and married her.—Shakespeare, _Midsummer Night’s Dream_ (1592). =Hel´inore= (_Dame_), wife of Malbecco, who was jealous of her, and not without cause. When Sir Paridel, Sir Sat´yrane (_3 syl._), and Britomart (as the squire of Dames) took refuge in Malbecco’s house, Dame Helinore and Sir Paridel had many “false belgardes” at each other, and talked love with glances which needed no interpreter. Helinore, having set fire to the closet where Malbecco kept his treasures, eloped with Paridel, while the old miser stopped to put out the fire. Paridel soon tired of the dame, and cast her off, leaving her to roam whither she listed. She was taken up by the satyrs, who made her their dairy-woman, and crowned her queen of the May.—Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, iii. 9, 10 (1590). Viridi colore est gemma helitropion, non ita acuto sed nubilo magis et represso, stellis puniceis superspersa. Causa nominis de effectu lapidis est et potestate. Dejecta in labris æneis radios solis mutat sanguineo repercussu, utraque aqua splendorem aëris abjicit et avertit. Etiam illud posse dicitur, ut _herba_ ejusdem nominis mixta et præcantationibus legitimis consecrata eum, a quocunque gestabitur, subtrahat visibus obviorum.—Solinus, _Geog._, xl. =Helisane de Crenne=, contemporary with Pâquier. She wrote her own biography, including the “history of her own death.”—_Angoisses Doloureuses_ (Lyons, 1546). =Hel Keplein=, a mantle of invisibility, belonging to the dwarf-king Laurin. (See Invisibility.)—_The Heldenbuch_ (thirteenth century). =Hell=, according to Mohammedan belief is divided into seven compartments: (1) for Mohammedans, (2) for Jews, (3) for Christians, (4) for Sabians, (5) for Magians, (6) for idolaters, (7) for hypocrites. All but idolaters and unbelievers will be in time released from torment.