Grim Reaper (Symbolic character) (Topical Term)
- Broader heading: Death (Personification)
- Broader heading: Death Symbolic aspects
- Broader heading: Signs and symbols
Work cat.: 2004671412: "I'm never too busy to devote some time to kids" [graphic], 1967.
Brewer's dict. of phrase and fable, 1981: p. 928 (reaper, the grim reaper: Death; often depicted, like Time, with a scythe)
From abacus to Zeus, 1995: p. 166 (when a skeleton is animated, it is a personification of Death and may bear such attributes as an hourglass, serpents, a scythe with which to cut men down, or a pitchfork with which to toss them into hell)