Ankou

Ankou appears as a man or skeleton wearing a black robe and a large hat which conceals his face, or, on occasion, simply as a shadow. He wields a scythe and is said to sit atop a cart for collecting the dead, or to drive a large, black coach pulled by four black horses and accompanied by two ghostly figures on foot.
According to legend, he was the first child of Adam and Eve. Other tales depict Ankou as the first to die in the current year, charged with collecting others' souls before he can go to the afterlife.

When there has been, in a year, more deaths than usual, one says about the Ankou: – War ma fé, heman zo eun Anko drouk. ("On my faith, this one is a nasty Ankou.")