Charon
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The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry thesouls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions.Shak.
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Charon, in Greek mythology, is the ferryman of the dead. The souls of the deceased are brought to him by Hermes, and Charon ferries them across the river Acheron. He only accepts the dead which are buried or burned with the proper rites, and if they pay him an obolus (coin) for their passage. For that reason a corpse had always an obolus placed under the tongue. Those who cannot afford the passage, or are not admitted by Charon, are doomed to wander on the banks of the Styx for a hundred years.
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The first moon of the planet Pluto to be discovered. It now appears that Pluto has two other moons as well.
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The boatman of the river [Styx], aka the [Grim Reaper].
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A name for a fictitious feminine hygeine spray, proposed by George Carlin.
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An old man who ferried the souls of the dead across the Styx and Acheron Rivers to Hades.
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