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Mythical Creatures of the Underworld: Type-in
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- 01Who is the grim ferryman that carries the souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron?
- 02What is the name of the three-headed hound that guards the entrance to the Underworld?
- 03What are the female death-spirits, daughters of Nyx, who personify violent or cruel death called?
- 04This monstrous demigoddess, often associated with Hecate, was said to have a single leg of bronze and preyed on young men.
- 05What is the name of the personification of Death, the twin brother of Hypnos (Sleep)?
- 06The personification of Sleep, who resides in a cave in the Underworld, is the twin brother of Thanatos. What is his name?
- 07In Virgil's Aeneid, these winged "snatchers," with the face of a woman and the body of a bird, are found tormenting souls in the Underworld.
- 08Known as the "Furies" in Roman myth, what is the Greek name for the female chthonic deities of vengeance who pursued wrongdoers?