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  • 19-10-2017
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Why did the greeks put a coin under the tongue of each dead person?

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thomasmjoseph
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  • 19-10-2017
They believed that after they die, they would have to talk to Charon, the ferryman of the underworld. Charon would only take souls who paid across the River, and so the coin was placed as payment for passage.
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