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To get into the underworld people had to pay a fare to the ferryman, Charon. That's why people put coins underneath the corpses' tongue. If they couldn't pay the fine they couldn't get into Elysium because the toll paid for the ferry to get them across the River Styx and Charon pulled the ferry.

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