Special thanks to Tony for the suggestion on Discord!

For thousands of years, different cultures have personified death in various ways, but few figures are as enduring—or as terrifying—as the Grim Reaper. Cloaked - literally in darkness, skeletal and cold, he’s the one who comes for us all, scythe in hand, to reap our souls when our time has come. But how did this eerie image come to be?

S O U R C E S:

• https://www.britannica.com/story/where-does-the-concept-of-a-grim-reaper-come-from
• The Ritualesque: Festival, Politics, and Popular Culture Western Folklore Vol. 68, No. 1 (Winter 2009), pp. 9-26 (18 pages )
• Communications, Asian Folklore Studies Vol. 49, No. 1 (1990), pp. 135-142 (8 pages)https://www.jstor.org/stable/1177953
• Ships, Fogs, and Traveling Pairs: Plague Legend Migration in Scandinavia Timothy R. TangherliniThe Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 101, No. 400 (Apr. - Jun., 1988), pp. 176-206
• Western Campfire Tales Levette J. Davidson California Folklore Quarterly , Vol. 2, No. 3 (Jul., 1943), pp. 177-190 (14 pages) https://doi.org/10.2307/1495703
• https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/grim-reaper.htm
• https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type7080.html#lach-szyrma

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