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(Don't Fear) The (Grim) Reaper
48 minutes Posted Oct 27, 2026 at 9:00 am.
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Cultures have come up with lots of personifications of death: Young and attractive? Yes. Riding a black buffalo? Check. Covered in tongues and eyeballs? Uh-huh. But in the West there’s only been one go-to soul taker for hundreds of years: The Grim Reaper.

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