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When dead animals start showing up around town, a superstitious ferryman claims he’s seen the Mansfield girls shapeshift into feral hounds.—Shannon Carlin, Time, 22 May 2025 The name of the ferryman was Charon, a dark figure with fiery eyes, who required you to pay a toll.—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025 Kentridge likens the captain to the ferryman, Charon, in Greek mythology transporting the dead across the river Styx to the underworld.—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025 The blind ferryman Ayoub lives in the swamps of southern Iraq.—Annika Pham, Variety, 18 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for ferryman
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