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  2. Personifications of death - Wikipedia

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    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. If we reach that term without meeting the grim reaper with his scythe, there or there about, meet him we surely shall.

  3. List of works influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos - Wikipedia

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    Caster can summon monsters with the chant Cthulhu fhtagn, and in Episode 13, Caster summons a giant sea monster by chanting Ph'nglui mglw'nafh wgah'nagl fhtagn. The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy The season 1 episode "Big Trouble in Billy's Basement" and the season 5 episode "Prank Call of Cthulhu" feature Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu, respectively.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Scythe - Wikipedia

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    The scythe has been largely replaced by horse-drawn and then tractor machinery, but is still used in some areas of Europe and Asia. Reapers are bladed machines that automate the cutting of the scythe, and sometimes subsequent steps in preparing the grain or the straw or hay. The word "scythe" derives from Old English siðe. [1]

  6. Death (Discworld) - Wikipedia

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    Instead of a scythe he wielded a weapon "which may, at some point in its evolution, have incorporated aspects of a scythe, in the same way a scalpel incorporated aspects of a stick". In place of a face or skull, the new Death had just a crown and was prideful, dramatic, cold, and cruel, the literal embodiment of humanity's fear of death.

  7. List of Black Butler characters - Wikipedia

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    A sadistic and sociopathic Grim Reaper who initially posed as Angelina Dalles's butler and conspired with her as Jack the Ripper. Grell is reprimanded after being exposed and later returns to her job. She is infatuated with Sebastian and always tries to approach him. Grell's Death Scythe is modeled after a chainsaw.

  8. Saquon Barkley to sit Eagles' season finale, miss out on NFL ...

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    Saquon Barkley won't get a chance to break the NFL single-season rushing record after all.. The Philadelphia Eagles running back won't play in the team's Week 18 game against the New York Giants ...

  9. 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 ...