Styx boatman

Usage examples of charon.

I heard him a little while afterwards, through the floor here, humming like the wind, the only song he knows-- about Bibo, and old Charon, and Bibo being drunk when he died, or something or other.

Then shalt thou see a great and marvailous dogge, with three heads, barking continually at the soules of such as enter in, but he can do them no other harme, he lieth day and night before the gate of Proserpina, and keepeth the house of Pluto with great diligence, to whom if thou cast one of thy sops, thou maist have accesse to Proserpina without all danger : shee will make thee good cheere, and entertaine thee with delicate meate and drinke, but sit thou upon the ground, and desire browne bread, and then declare thy message unto her, and when thou hast received such beauty as she giveth, in thy returne appease the rage of the dogge with thy other sop, and give thy other halfe penny to covetous Charon, and come the same way againe into the world as thou wentest : but above all things have a regard that thou looke not in the boxe, neither be not too curious about the treasure of the divine beauty.

The man we believe them to have contacted for the job is known in the trade by the name of Charon, after the Styx ferryman.

The data there was remarkably slim, all of it gleaned from reports of people in the business who had tried to investigate Charon in the past.

Of those assassinations in the last two decades that were positively linked to Charon, a dozen were also with long guns.

Whether she was with the main body or the splinter group that had hired Charon was what he wanted to know next.

A smuggler like Webba known associate of Charon bringing in a book about the Grail?

Once this irksome business with Charon was out of the way, or in some kind of a holding pattern, Richard would be on the next flight out.

He remembered the other men who had made a special project of hunting for Charon and the fate of three of them.

If Charon was outside somewhere and wanted to he could level the whole place.

It would be nearly useless against Charon, though, and likely only send him into a killing frenzy.

Even if Charon was still in Toronto, Richard had to get to Glastonbury.

Richard watched, fascinated as Charon struggled with the demon, until slowly, ever so slowly, he came back.

He stepped down onto the first of the stone flags, but with incredible speed, Charon was before him and growling into his face.

Not easy, since Charon frequently put on speed, moving almost too fast even for Richard to follow.