Hell icons (Russian: Адописная икона, adopisnaya ikona, lit.
The term "Hell-written" first occurs in Prologue (Eastern Orthodox Synaxarium) regarding Sabellianist church banners.
The painting of hell icons, known as adopis[1] or "hellography" (as opposed to iconography), was also a type of black magic in medieval Russia.
"[1][4] Nikolai Leskov, who was interested in Christian iconography, included a reference to hell icons in his story The Sealed Angel (1872) and in short article "On hell icons" (Russian: Об адописных иконах), published in 1873.
due to lack of material evidence (all such icons, if ever existed, have been lost).