Psychopomps

It's about onieromancy, and psychopomps and the last dream between life and death, and in-between people and places. ❋ Kat Howard (2009)

Angels, Valkyries, certain birds (such as vultures) and animals (such as dogs) could also act as psychopomps. ❋ Jan (2009)

The ghouls, which are also changelings, are psychopomps. ❋ Princeofcairo (2003)

Like phagocytes in the bloodstream of the living, they are not just psychopomps, protectors of souls during the transition voyage, but scavengers, seeking out and returning souls who have crossed that boundary in the wrong direction and who do not belong on the east bank of the living, no matter how terrible the imperative of the torment that has brought them back there. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2002)

In their character of cows, also, the clouds were regarded as psychopomps; and hence it is still a popular superstition that a cow breaking into the yard foretokens a death in the family. ❋ Unknown (1872)

Things as simple as the sounds of whippoorwills build a nameless dread, as their role as psychopomps is revealed, and through the entire production, sound alone builds a convincing world under assault by forces it can't understand. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I did learn that, as in opera, tenors are good, baritones are psychopomps, basses are evil. ❋ Unknown (2009)