psychopomp

That’s when he is greeted, in a kind of nightclub limbo, by Chimney Man — so called because this forbidding psychopomp, played by the fascinatingly strict Billy Porter, sweeps souls to their destination.

Well, really two, if you count the supernatural one: a psychopomp, or collector of souls of the recently dead.

He’s focusing on “psychopomp work” – the guiding of newly dead souls into the afterlife.

Those same people call her a psychopomp — someone who acts as a link between this world and the next for others.

There were ogres and villains, psychopomps, messengers, and mentors.