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Why do Christians sometimes put coins over the eyes of dead people?
I was curious about something I heard. Why do Christians sometimes put coins over the eyes of dead people?
That's an interesting question. It's actually a practice that dates back to ancient Greece and Rome. It was believed that the coins would pay the fare for the deceased to cross the river Styx, which was thought to separate the living world from the afterlife.