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  2. Personifications of death - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1800s, the character of Death became known as the Grim Reaper in English literature. The earliest appearance of the name "Grim Reaper" in English is in the 1847 book The Circle of Human Life: [21] [22] [23] All know full well that life cannot last above seventy, or at the most eighty years.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Grim Reaper (Marvel Comics) - Wikipedia

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    Later still, the Grim Reaper with Ultron, Nekra and other allies, captured the Avengers. Grim Reaper attempted a recreation of "Simon Williams" as a zombie. He was pursued by the Vision and Wonder Man in a cave, and died in a fall from the cave ledge. [23] Grim Reaper was then resurrected by Nekra as a zombie, but he believed himself to be alive.

  5. The Seventh Seal - Wikipedia

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    The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.Set in Sweden [3] [4] during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) and a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death (Bengt Ekerot), who has come to take his life.

  6. Gregory Scarpa - Wikipedia

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    Gregory Scarpa Sr. (May 8, 1928 – June 4, 1994), nicknamed the Grim Reaper and the Mad Hatter, was an American caporegime and hitman for the Colombo crime family, as well as an informant for the FBI. During the 1970s and '80s, Scarpa was the chief enforcer and veteran hitman for Colombo boss Carmine Persico.

  7. The scariest Halloween monsters and their origin stories - AOL

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    The scythe is a tool used to harvest crops, just as the Grim Reaper must harvest souls, and, of course, this reaper is a skeleton because skeletons are representative of death,” says Williams.

  8. Azrael - Wikipedia

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    Although lacking the eminent scythe, his portrayal nevertheless resembles the Grim Reaper. [42] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow mentions Azrael in "The Reaper and the Flowers" as an angel of death, but he is not equated with Samael, the angel of death in Jewish lore who appears as a fallen and malevolent angel, instead. [43]

  9. Maggia (comics) - Wikipedia

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    Grim Reaper (Eric Williams) – First appeared in Avengers #52. Guido Carboni – Crime Boss. First appeared in Marvel Spotlight #20 where he was depicted as a big time crime boss who held operations all across New York.