* Charon ( mythology ), in Greek mythology, the ferryman who ferried the dead to the underworld

Cthonic Zeus was called Eubuleus, " the good councelor ", and the ferryman of the river of the underworld Charon, " glad ".

In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon ( or ; Greek Χάρων ) is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead.

Other Latin authors also describe Charon, among them Seneca in his tragedy Hercules Furens, where Charon is described in verses 762-777 as an old man clad in foul garb, with haggard cheeks and an unkempt beard, a fierce ferryman who guides his craft with a long pole.

Tolls are mentioned in Greek mythology where Charon the ferryman charged a toll to carry the dead across the rivers Acheron and Styx to Hades.

Jackson Knight, " Vergil's Charon is not only the Greek ferryman of Aristophanes The Frogs, but more than half his Etruscan self, Charun, the Etruscan torturing death-devil, no ferryman at all.

His songs often make references to Greek and Roman mythological characters such as the ferryman Charon and the God of wine and pleasure, Bacchus, brought for comic effect into Stockholm's surroundings.

The main center of his cult became Letopolis, and it is considered a possibility that his cult caused the development of the myth of the ferryman in other Mediterranean mythologies, such as that of Charon.

On the journey he meets the ferryman ( similar to Charon ), a girl, Tuonen tytti, or Tuonen piika ( Death's maid ), who takes him over the river of Tuoni.

In the background, the ferryman Charon rows the dead across the river in his boat.

The book begins with Charon, ferryman of the Styx being startled — and annoyed — by the arrival of a houseboat on the Styx.

In Greek mythology, Charon was the ferryman who carried the dead in his boat.

In " Rebelde ", one of Ibarbourou's most richly constructed poems, Ibarbourou details a confrontation between herself and Charon, the ferryman of the River Styx.

In the pseudepigraphical Apocalypse of Zephaniah the river has a ferryman equivalent to Charon in Greek myth, but replaced by an angel.

When both the hero and his partners are dead, the game over screen consists of the underworld ferryman Charon picking up a soul.

The custom was explained by the myth of Charon, the ferryman who conveyed the souls of the newly dead across the water — a lake, river, or swamp — that separated the world of the living from the underworld.

The Epicureans believed that the soul was a thin tissue of atoms that dissipated into the cosmos upon death, and that conventional mythological views of the afterlife and its geography and inhabitants were inane fictions — a view encapsulated by a funeral inscription at Rome that reads: Do not go forth nor pass along without reading me ; but stop, listen to me and do not leave before you have been instructed: there is no crossing ferry to Hades, nor Charon the ferryman, nor Aeacus holding the keys, nor the dog Cerberus.

He gets a ferryman, Vain-Hope, to ferry him across the River of Death rather than cross it on foot as one is supposed to do.

In other words the idea that the boat is ferried by an Ottoman ferryman is part of the exotic " Turkishness " of the word to the Russian 19th Century traveller.

The ferry which used to operate at Instow ceased on the retirement of the ferryman in 2007, so the path now goes upstream to cross the river by the 13th century bridge at Bideford, which is the site of the Bideford Railway Heritage Centre and terminus of the North Devon Railway.

The encounter here is between a young girl seeking to cross a river in a violent storm, and a ferryman who agrees to take her without charge.

Although the tone implies an unworldly nature to the girl, in the end it is the ferryman who is revealed as the ghost.

This version includes a garment as a token: the girl ’ s shawl, left as a pledge for the fare, is found in the morning on the ferryman ’ s grave.

Steven Mackintosh is the Luck Child, Cathryn Bradshaw is the princess, Anthony O ' Donnell is the Little Man, Robert Eddison is the cursed ferryman, and George Little as the voice of the Griffin ( which is operated by Alistair Fullarton and Brian Henson ).

The name Hildolf appears in the eddic poem Hárbardsljód applied by the ferryman Harbard to his supposed master, but Harbard is actually Odin in disguise and there is no clear reference here to a son of Odin.

Both helping and hindering her is Diver Dan, the enigmatic cafe owner / ferryman / chef with no ambition but a curious and colourful past, with whom she soon strikes up a relationship.

The ferryman Hárbarðr ( Greybeard ) is rude and obnoxious towards Thor who is returning to Asgard after a journey in Jötunheimr, the land of the giants.

Journey to the East is written from the point of view of a man ( in the book called " H. H .") who becomes a member of " The League ", a timeless religious sect whose members include famous fictional and real characters, such as Plato, Mozart, Pythagoras, Paul Klee, Don Quixote, Puss in Boots, Tristram Shandy, Baudelaire, and the ferryman Vasudeva, a character from one of Hesse's earlier works, Siddhartha.

Records in the late 11th century relating to the then King of Gwynedd, Gruffudd ap Cynan state that a ferryman was employed there and ferry houses at both locations have been recorded throughout history.

To cross the river, the ferryman orients the boat around 45 ° from the current so that the current pushes the boat across the river.

In 1816, Cloverport ferryman Jacob Weatherholt piloted the family of Abraham Lincoln, then a lad of seven, along with his parents, Thomas and Nancy, across the Ohio River as the family left Kentucky to move to a newly-acquired farm in Spencer County, Indiana.

The fisherman was also a ferryman, ferrying people across the river in his boat.

When Shantanu's son Bhishma had grown into a young prince, Shantanu came across Satyavati, an adopted daughter of a ferryman on the Yamuna river ), and fell in love with her.

Residents of the castle include the castle's librarian, who quickly changes his resolve not to aid an enemy of Dracula, and sells items to Alucard ; and the ferryman, who brings Alucard across a river in the castle.

In the 1841 case of Fouldes v Willoughby, a ferryman was sued for conversion by the owner of two horses which he had put on board to be carried across a river.

After crossing the San Joaquin River, Wood paid the ferryman $ 5 to hold the boat on the east side of the river to insure he would gain sufficient distance from Miller to insure he would reach the land office first.

Advancing to the river bank, they discovered that the ferry was gone ; the ferryman had sunk it to deny its use to the Germans.

Daughter of the Chedi king Vasu ( also known as Uparichara Vasu ) and a cursed apsara ( celestial nymph )- turned-fish Adrika, Satyavati was brought up as a commoner – the adopted daughter of a fisherman-chieftain ( who was also a ferryman ) on the banks of the river Yamuna.

# No one to cross a river, but with an authorized ferryman.

He became a ferryman on the river Euenos.

Xiang Yu retreated to Wu River ( near present-day He County, Chaohu City, Anhui ) and the ferryman at the ford prepared a boat for him to cross the river, strongly encouraging him to do so because Xiang Yu still had the support of the people from his homeland in the south.

He had to make his way over the Tuonela river by tricking the ferryman.

Because of the new operators ' brutal ways, a group of U. S. Army soldiers sets up a second ferry at a ford upriver to cross — which the Yuma briefly appropriate until their ferryman Callahan is decapitated and thrown in the river.

The chasm is equivalent to the river in the Jewish version, but in Christ's version there is no angelic ferryman, and it is impossible to pass from one side to the other.

Wawne and Meaux each had one or two licensed houses in the later 18th century, but only one was recorded from the 1820s, the Anchor, or Windham Arms, at Wawne, which stood at the river crossing and was kept by the ferryman.