Depends, if you take the Biblical account Satan doesn't punish anyone. In fact hell was designed to hold and punish Satan and his angels and bad humans are just added as extra inmates. Not sure where the idea that Satan is in charge of Hell even came from but it's not from any historically religious books.
Dante's Inferno... basically. That's where the whole fire and brimestone really originated as well.
edit: I should add... the idea was around LONG before, just because all religions have extreme cults, what Dante's Inferno did was give a description that could be read to the illiterate masses, and it just kinda got stuck, culturally.
Most popular depictions of hell and Satan come from or stem from works like Dante’s Devine comedies, or other European works like paradise lost- including the idea hell is hot- which traditionally hell was mostly depicted as cold. In only 12 cases in the Bible is hell related to burning, and in fact “hell” as read in English is actually a place holder for several locations given in the original text which all essentially convey the idea of suffering or bad things in death, so there isn’t even exactly one single “Hell” in the Bible. Early Judaism didn’t even have a hell. Hell became a popular fictional inspiration and setting and many beliefs on Hell are taken from these sources and not any actual religious text. We see a lot of this. The Bible never mentions an apple in Eden, it never says Jonah was swallowed by a wale and it doesn’t tell us that three kings brought gifts to Jesus- and the wisemen aren’t mentioned until Mary and Joseph have their own house. Popular phrases like...
“God helps those who help themselves” are never mentioned in the Bible, and some even argue that many stories and direct quotes from holy scriptures counter that idea and pretty much say the opposite, that one should place all their problems on God. So Satan is never mentioned as really anything more than a guy who was sent to Hell, and beyond testing Jesus in the desert Faust is the closest we get to Satan as a wheeler dealer. His status as an angsty outcast, a rebel, and as an evil symbol to hang wrongs on made him a more central figure of popular conscious and religion than any text really gives. Things like “Satan’s minions” and the like most probably contributed to the idea he was a boss where “minions” should likely read more as “peers” or “ilk.”
Nah. I meant Faust. But either works. Mephistopheles was a demon, Faust was the human who made a pact with a demon. Mephistopheles Represented Satan in the deal, but was not Satan (a good example of Satan in popular culture as a ruler of hell,) but the actual deal was with Faust, and more people (even those who aren’t well versed in German Legend), recognize the name for its involvement- even giving his name to the term “Faustian Pact.” So I went with Faust as the point was that the common perception of the devil making deals with people may not originate from the legend, but is thought to be the most significant source for the idea in popular conscious, and beyond the new testaments offers of Satan to end Jesus’s suffering in the desert (special circumstances what with him being the Christian messiah and all...) there isn’t a basis in scripture for the devil as a deal maker. It would be more correct to say “since Mephistopheles deal with Faust..” and more even to say
“Since Satan used Mephistopheles as in intermediary to make a deal with Faust...” but text limits. I mean, my posts can already be several replies to myself long. If I said everything withcomplete precision and context with full citations it would probably kill the server! But- props on the demonology/knowledge of historical literature.
Ok yeah, I get what you mean. It's sort of a... it takes two (three?) sort of deal, and the story is called Faust, so any of the 3 are referencing the same idea.
edit: I should add... the idea was around LONG before, just because all religions have extreme cults, what Dante's Inferno did was give a description that could be read to the illiterate masses, and it just kinda got stuck, culturally.