It is interesting to note that the dead body itself was never garbed in black - the colour of the winding sheet or shroud seems always to have been white. ![]() The garb of Death or the black mourning robe, to which the first references are found in the early fifteenth century, is very close to the robe of the priest or monk who officiated at the death bed. In modern-day European-based folklore, Death is known as the Grim Reaper, depicted as wearing a dark hooded cloak and wielding a scythe.
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