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Charon
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What's The Definition Of Charon?
[n] (Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades
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The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the
souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal
regions. --Shak.
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