Charon, in the Greek mythology the ferryman of the ghosts of the dead over the Styx into Hades, a grim old figure with a mean dress and a dirty beard, peremptory in exacting from the ghosts he ferried over the obolus allowed him for passage-money.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Charnay * Charondas