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Charon

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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In the Greek mythology the ferryman of the ghosts of the dead over the Styx into Hades, a grim old figure with a mean dress and a dirty beard, peremptory in exacting from the ghosts he ferried over the obolus allowed him for passage-money.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Charon'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/charon.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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