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The skull and crossbones motif was used by many American college fraternities, sororities, and secret societies founded in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The most well-known example of this usage is Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale University which derives its very name from the symbol.
A skull and crossbones is a symbol consisting of a human skull and two long bones crossed together under or behind the skull. [1] The design originated in the Late Middle Ages as a symbol of death and especially as a memento mori on tombstones. Actual skulls and bones were long used to mark the entrances to Spanish cemeteries (campo santo).
The skull was a symbol of melancholy for Shakespeare's contemporaries. [4] An old Yoruba folktale tells of a man who encountered a skull mounted on a post by the wayside. To his astonishment, the skull spoke. The man asked the skull why it was mounted there. The skull said that it was mounted there for talking.
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Totenkopf (German: [ˈtoːtn̩ˌkɔpf], i.e. skull, literally "dead person's head") is the German word for skull. The word is often used to denote a figurative, graphic or sculptural symbol, common in Western culture, consisting of the representation of a human skull – usually frontal, more rarely in profile with or without the mandible.
The fourth and top arm display a six-pointed star. [2] The back of the badge has an engraved serpent echoing the serpent from the fraternity's coat of arms. Its coat of arms is a shield that includes the fraternity's symbols on its four quarters, a crest of the skull and bones, and the motto "Stellis Aequus Durando". [2]
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Skull and crossbones (Spanish cemetery), "campo santo", used to mark the entrances to cemeteries; Skull & Crossbones, 1987 video game by Atari Games; U+2620 ☠ SKULL AND CROSSBONES, a Unicode code point in the Miscellaneous Symbols block; Skull and Bones may refer to: Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale University