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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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    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.

  4. RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    I think RuneScape is a game that would be adopted in the English-speaking Indian world and the local-speaking Indian world. We're looking at all those markets individually." [78] RuneScape later launched in India through the gaming portal Zapak on 8 October 2009, [79] and in France and Germany through Bigpoint Games on 27 May 2010. [80]

  5. Scythe - Wikipedia

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    Although the scythe is still an indispensable tool for farmers in developing countries and in mountainous terrain, the tool has become associated with the Grim Reaper. In Romania, for example, in the highland landscape of the Transylvanian Apuseni Mountains , [ 14 ] scything is a very important annual activity, taking about 2–3 weeks to ...

  6. 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.

  7. Death (Discworld) - Wikipedia

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    The Death of Fleas also escaped resorption, but was not seen after Reaper Man. The Death of Rats resembles a rodentine skeleton walking on its hind legs, wearing a black robe, and carrying a tiny scythe, since his form took shape from the latent form of Death in Reaper Man, and he came into existence in the vicinity of Bill Door.

  8. Magic ring - Wikipedia

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    Traditional medieval Arabic and Hebraic demonology both cultivated the legend of the Ring of Solomon, used to control demons and / or djinn.Tales of magic rings feature in One Thousand and One Nights, where the fisherman Judar bin Omar finds the ring of the enchanter Al-Shamardal, [7] and the cobbler Ma'aruf discovers the signet of Shaddád ibn Aad. [8]

  9. 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.