the novel "Drowning Man" by Michael Robotham as well as in the novel "Thrones, Dominations" by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh in which a character remarks:"You can bury them deep under, sir; you can bind them in tunnels, ... but in the end where a river has been, a river will always be.
Dante Alighieri je v svojem podzemnem Peklu vključeval reke Acheron, Phlegethon in Styx.