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The Boat of Charon by Jose Benlliure y Gil (1919):
>In Greek mythology, Charon 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.
>A coin to pay Charon for passage was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. In some versions those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years.
>In Greek mythology, Charon 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.
>A coin to pay Charon for passage was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. In some versions those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years.
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