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Charon

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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.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Down the sable flood we glided, I thought of the Styx, and of Charon rowing some solitary soul to the Land of Shades.

Charlotte Brontë. Villette
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get into the barque, and take care not to make it a barque of Charon.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 10 (Book Ten)
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Troilius: No, Pandarus, I stalk about her door,
Like to a strange soul upon the Stygian banks
Staying for waftage. O, be thou my Charon,
And give me swift transportance to these fields
Where I may wallow in the lily-beds
Propos’d for the deserver!

William Shakespeare. The History of Troilus and Cressida (1602)
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