What is the grim reaper?

Question

I'm sorry I'm so ignorant =P I'm also slow, so please explain thoroughly.

Answer 1

The Grim Reaper is the personification of death. He is usually portrayed as a skeletal being in a black hooded robe and carrying a scythe or sickle (which is a medieval grain harvesting tool) which represents his harvesting of souls when they are "ripe' or ready to die. the first representations of death in this form come from woodcuts from the mid 1300's during the time of the "black death" or bubonic plague when anywhere from 30 to 50% of the population of europe died

Answer 2

You guys have a misunderstanding of what the grim reaper does. People die through one of two ways. They live to their body s natural end, or they attract misfortune. In the former case, if the grim reaper does not claim the soul, and guide it to an afterlife/new life, the soul stays in the body like a captain going down with the ship. In the latter case, the soul wants to die, and so attracts bad fortune to it. If the soul does not die through misfortune (which a reaper arranges so as to give cause to leave the body), the soul basically destroys itself, becoming a dead soul. Btw, that s what a reaper is, a soul that can t feel anymore. Reapers help themselves by guiding bodies, renewing the souls of the former living, they renew their souls. And the souls they guide return to life. You are not "killing people", nor is this evil. Reapers protect the living from decay, and send them on tto new life.

Answer 3

The Grim Reaper is the personification of death. It reaps souls of the living whose times have come for them to depart Earth. The Grim Reaper looks pretty much like a skeleton, wearing a black hooded robe with a scythe.

Answer 4

The Grim Reaper symbolizes death in most medieval artwork and is normally shown as a Skeleton wearing a black robe and wielding a scythe. Also it might be riding some kind of black winged/flying horse.

However, he Is also known as the the one who guides you to the underworld. This comes from the Greek myth of the boatman of the river Styx. In that myth the Boatman was the first person you meet after you die. If you could pay him, he would take you down the river to hades.If you couldn't pay the boatman you had to find your own way which could take years of wandering. Coincidentally it is also why Greeks were buried with a coin in their mouths, to pay the boatman's fee.

Answer 5

Death. Commonly shown in a black hood with a scythe (a stick with a hooked blade on the end.) Usually grinning.

Answer 6

It is another name for death, that's all. In paintings from the time of Plagues (the black death), death was often signified by a rotting corpse carrying a scythe.

Answer 7

It the sign of death,they say if youhim in your dreams your gona die next!He is the ghost in the Hooded cape with no face and he points at you with long skinny fingers and that means your next to DIE!Hollywood

Answer 8

spirit of death to carry one to the unknown realm after death-if you wanna beleive in fairy tales--just like other figures that have been created by someone's imagination and stuck down through the ages...

Answer 9

supposely when ur time comes (when ur about to die) u see this guy in a black cloak wit a hood over his head n a sickle (its like a knife on a stick!) n he kills u! : )

Answer 10

death who usually carries a scythe and is dressed in black.