Talk:Ankou's Horseshoe/@comment-28082245-20170529144313

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankou#Background

Second paragraph down is the report stating: "Other versions have it that the Ankou is the first dead person of the year (though he is always depicted as adult, and male), charged with collecting the others' souls before he can go to the afterlife. He is said to drive a large, black coach pulled by four black horses; accompanied by two ghostly figures on foot"