The Cumaean Sibyl gave living people a golden bough necessary to cross the river while still alive.
Charon was the son of Erebus and Nyx.
He was depicted as a cranky, skinny old man or a winged demon with a double hammer.
It is often said that he ferried souls across the river Styx. This is untrue. By all accounts, the river was Acheron.
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