Highly-decorated sugar-skull candy has become one of the most recognizable elements of the celebrations. José Guadalupe Posada's 1913 La Calavera Catrina zinc etching Mexico įigurines and images of skeletons doing routine things are common in Mexico's Day of the Dead celebration, where skulls symbolize life and their familiar circumstances invite levity. In Japanese folklore, Mekurabe are rolling skulls with eyeballs who menace Taira no Kiyomori. " The Boy Who Wanted the Willies" is a Brothers Grimm fairy tale in which a boy named Hans joins a circle of dancing skeletons. The Triumph of Death is a 1562 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicting an army of skeletons raiding a town and slaughtering its occupants. Death as one of the biblical horsemen of the Apocalypse has been depicted as a skeleton riding a horse. The Grim Reaper is often depicted as a hooded skeleton holding a scythe (and occasionally an hourglass), which has been attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger (1538). Most are human skeletons, but they can also be from any creature or race found on Earth or in the fantasy world.Īnimated human skeletons have been used as a personification of death in Western culture since the Middle Ages, a personification perhaps influenced by the valley of the dry bones in the Book of Ezekiel. Animated skeletons in The Dance of Death (1493), a woodcut by Michael Wolgemut, from the Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel.Ī skeleton is a type of physically manifested undead often found in fantasy, gothic and horror fiction, and mythical art.
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