Charon

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Area(s) Reported: River Styx in Hades
Date(s) Reported: ca. 12th Century BCE to 7th Century CE

When the ancient Greeks died, they got a pretty raw deal... in order to get to the afterlife, they literally had to pay for the trip! Their supernatural "taxi driver" in this case was called Charon; and if you didn't have a coin for him, your afterlife was going to suck. Big time.

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Sources

Encyclopedia Mythica: Charon, 2008 website, by Micha F. Lindemans, http://www.pantheon.org/articles/c/charon.html
Encyclopedia Mythica: Styx (River), 2008 website, by Michael Dawson, http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/styx_river.html

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