The Grim Reaper The concept of Death as a personified being is timeless, being as old as time itself. However, the specific idea incorporating a grim figure of a hooded skeleton carrying a scythe was not very evident until the medieval period. During a time where morality was seen as pivotal to society and fear of the unknown was high it was perhaps unsurprising that life's greatest mystery (death) would come to be vied in the medieval mind as frightening and ever-present in theory. The ghostly