Pine Cones: Grim Reaper | Rowan & Pine Shorts
10/25/24 • 14 min
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For thousands of years, different cultures have personified death in various ways, but few figures are as enduring—or as terrifying—as the Grim Reaper. Cloaked - literally in darkness, skeletal and cold, he’s the one who comes for us all, scythe in hand, to reap our souls when our time has come. But how did this eerie image come to be?
S O U R C E S:
- https://www.britannica.com/story/where-does-the-concept-of-a-grim-reaper-come-from
- The Ritualesque: Festival, Politics, and Popular Culture Western Folklore Vol. 68, No. 1 (Winter 2009), pp. 9-26 (18 pages )
- Communications, Asian Folklore Studies Vol. 49, No. 1 (1990), pp. 135-142 (8 pages)https://www.jstor.org/stable/1177953
- Ships, Fogs, and Traveling Pairs: Plague Legend Migration in Scandinavia Timothy R. TangherliniThe Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 101, No. 400 (Apr. - Jun., 1988), pp. 176-206
- Western Campfire Tales Levette J. Davidson California Folklore Quarterly , Vol. 2, No. 3 (Jul., 1943), pp. 177-190 (14 pages) https://doi.org/10.2307/1495703
- https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/grim-reaper.htm
- https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type7080.html#lach-szyrma
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For thousands of years, different cultures have personified death in various ways, but few figures are as enduring—or as terrifying—as the Grim Reaper. Cloaked - literally in darkness, skeletal and cold, he’s the one who comes for us all, scythe in hand, to reap our souls when our time has come. But how did this eerie image come to be?
S O U R C E S:
- https://www.britannica.com/story/where-does-the-concept-of-a-grim-reaper-come-from
- The Ritualesque: Festival, Politics, and Popular Culture Western Folklore Vol. 68, No. 1 (Winter 2009), pp. 9-26 (18 pages )
- Communications, Asian Folklore Studies Vol. 49, No. 1 (1990), pp. 135-142 (8 pages)https://www.jstor.org/stable/1177953
- Ships, Fogs, and Traveling Pairs: Plague Legend Migration in Scandinavia Timothy R. TangherliniThe Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 101, No. 400 (Apr. - Jun., 1988), pp. 176-206
- Western Campfire Tales Levette J. Davidson California Folklore Quarterly , Vol. 2, No. 3 (Jul., 1943), pp. 177-190 (14 pages) https://doi.org/10.2307/1495703
- https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/grim-reaper.htm
- https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type7080.html#lach-szyrma
C O N T A C T
https://linktr.ee/rowanandpine
We ask that you listen to main episode or two before contacting us for collaborations. :)
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S O U R C E S:
- Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston
- https://popular-archaeology.com/article/walking-dead-and-vengeful-spirits/
- A Sorcerer's Bottle: The Visual Art of Magic in Haiti by Eizabeth MacAlister
- https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/opinion/a-zombie-is-a-slave-forever.html
- https://amywilentz.com/response-to-i-walked-with-a-zombie/
- Undead (A Zombie Oriented Ontology) -Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
- https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/16bdrve/comment/jzdneav/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
- https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/2018/03/05/zombies-of-the-frozen-north-white-walkers-and-old-norse-revenants/
- https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6023
- The Mythical Creatures Bible: The Definitive Guide to Legendary Beings Volume 14 By Brenda Rosen
- https://www.medieval.eu/grettir-and-glam/
- https://sagadb.org/grettis_saga.en
- https://www.historytoday.com/hidden-history-deviant-burials
- https://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/medieval-irish-had-their-own-ways-to-stop-the-undead/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110612133939/http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/
- https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-zombies
- https://mythology.net/mythical-creatures/revenant/
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S O U R C E S:
https://cfa.lmu.edu/labandgallery/exhibitions/pastexhibitions/2017/psychopomp/
Encyclopedia Of World Mythology by Arthur Cotterell
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Azrael
https://www.crowsbone.com/blogarchive/into-the-underworld-psychopomps-and-deities-of-death
https://www.psychopomps.org/psychopomp-guide.html
https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/45247581/2015_Mackin_Ellie_1018354_ethesis.pdf
https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/grim-reaper.htm
https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/enlighten/guiding-souls-psychopomps-in-mythology-a
https://phoenixalchemyjewellery.co.uk/gwyn-ap-nudd-my-favourite-welsh-folktale/
https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0308/ch12.xhtml
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