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  2. Grim Reaper - Wikipedia

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    The Grim Reaper is a popular personification of death in Western culture in the form of a hooded skeletal figure wearing a black robe and carrying a scythe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Since the 14th century, European art connected each of these various physical features to death, though the name "Grim Reaper" and the artistic popularity of all the features ...

  3. Personifications of death - Wikipedia

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    In Poland, Death – Śmierć or kostuch – has an appearance similar to the Grim Reaper, although its robe was traditionally white instead of black. Because the word śmierć is feminine in gender, death is frequently portrayed as a skeletal old woman, as depicted in 15th-century dialogue "Rozmowa Mistrza Polikarpa ze Śmiercią" (Latin ...

  4. Symbols of death - Wikipedia

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    The human skull is an obvious and frequent symbol of death, found in many cultures and religious traditions. [1] Human skeletons and sometimes non-human animal skeletons and skulls can also be used as blunt images of death; the traditional figures of the Grim Reaper – a black-hooded skeleton with a scythe – is one use of such symbolism. [2]

  5. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    The Grim Reaper [2] Personification of death Cultural: A skeleton with a scythe, often in a cloak. Also commonly truncated to just "The Reaper". Hand in one's dinner pail [2] To die Informal No longer required at workmen's canteen Happy hunting ground Dead Informal Used to describe the afterlife according to Native Americans Hara-kiri

  6. List of Grim & Evil characters - Wikipedia

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    Evergrimskull "Grim" Death a.k.a. The Grim Reaper is the personification of death appearing as a skeleton wearing a black, hooded cloak and armed with a scythe, who serves as a psychopomp between the realms of the living and the deceased. Grim was born around 137,000 years ago at the time of the Stone Age and speaks with a Jamaican accent.

  7. Death (South Park) - Wikipedia

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    Parker long wanted to feature a Grim Reaper-like death character in South Park, as he had enjoyed drawing cartoon images of Death riding on a tricycle since his childhood. This was the inspiration behind a scene in which Death inexplicably rides a tricycle while chasing the South Park boys through the streets.

  8. List of Soul Eater characters - Wikipedia

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    As a grim reaper, he prefers scythe-type weapons and makes Spirit, Maka's father, his primary death scythe. Shinigami also raises his second child Death the Kid, whom he created in Shinra’s image, to be his heir and not end up like Asura. Though knowing that he would die once Kid connects his Lines of Sanzu, Shinigami accepts his fate and ...

  9. Mori Calliope - Wikipedia

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    Mori Calliope's fictional lore describes her as the "Grim Reaper's first apprentice" who, due to slow business, had to start a career as a VTuber and collect souls. [2] Her character is reminiscent of the shinigami. [3] Mori is one of the five members of the agency's subgroup Hololive English: Myth. [4] Her character designer is Yukisame. [2]