scythes don't look like this, most scythes have a horizontally curved blade and two handles on the staff so that you could swing the scythe to the side of you and cut crops. the grim reaper is depicted as using one as he is 'harvesting' souls, Grim(solemn, sad, unpleasant) Reaper(farmer, harvester).
Jeanne D'arc was not a skilled swordsman, nor a outstanding military commander. she was an excellent figurehead. she also, in classic French fashion, completely ignored an English treaty and restarted the hundred years war just a few months before the King of England (I forget his name- Henry...