This document provides information on several death goddesses from various mythologies: Dea Tacita was the Roman goddess of death and silence; Mania ruled the Roman underworld with Mantus and was the mother of ghosts; Morta was the Roman goddess of pain and death responsible for the transition period between waking and sleeping; Selket was an Egyptian scorpion goddess with magical protective powers; and Melinoe was the Greek goddess of dying people and ghosts born from Zeus and Persephone who spread fear.