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In Etruscan myth, Charun was an animal-headed god with tusks and flaming eyes who presided over death and torment. He took particular delight in the writhings of those in pain or in the grip of their death-agony. Later Roman belief took his name for the ferryman over the river to Hades, calling him Charon, but they did not retain the character of the early god.