![]() Rose Tyler once had a nightmare involving the Grim Reaper and the Brothers Grimm story Godfather Death, prompting the Ninth Doctor to recount the story to her. The fear was especially effective due to an association of the reaper with Bubonic Plague. In Heathrow in 1666, a group of Terileptils dressed up their android as the Grim Reaper to terrify the superstitious local humans. The Grim Reaper also appeared on the Death card of the Tarot. A representation of Death who resembled a walking skeleton appeared in Cardiff in 1479. ( PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation)Įarly woodcuts showed a Weevil in a shroud and scythe, implying that the idea of the Grim Reapers came from humans having associated the Weevils with death. ( TV: Dead Man Walking, The Visitation) Death herself, described in many accounts as a real being with whom the Doctor had dealings, once appeared to the Doctor in the form of the robed skeleton, though carrying no scythe. The Grim Reaper, also known as the Great Reaper, was a representation of Death that appeared in the mythology of many cultures of the planet Earth. For the creatures of the same name, see Reaper. ![]()
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