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Hindu texts and East
Asian esoteric Buddhism, the term
denotes a race of
demonesses who ate the
flesh and/or
vital essence of humans. In
Hindu Tantric literature...
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phalluses from roof tops of
houses to
drive away evil
spirits and
subdue demonesses. He is, therefore, also
called the "fertility saint", as the monastery...
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bodhisattva shows up to
subdue the Hou and take him back. The
Spider Demonesses (蜘蛛精) are
seven spider yaoguai sisters based in Silk Cave (盤絲洞) at Silk...
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easily identify the
archetypal characters such as gods, goddesses, demons,
demonesses, saints,
animals and
characters of a story.
Seven basic makeup types are...
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devis and
asuras and asuris: "The gods and
goddesses and the
demons and
demonesses are both
children of Pra****ati, yet they
fought among themselves." (Sanskrit:...
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every house was
found to have such
protective bowls against demons and
demonesses. The
centre of the
inside of the bowl
depicts Lilith, or the male form...
- of ****an, the
Navajo skin-walkers, and gods,
goddesses and
demons and
demonesses such as the
Norse Loki or the Gr**** Proteus.
Shapeshifting to the form...
- that
while there are
several bloodthirsty, nude, and wild
goddesses and
demonesses in
Hindu mythology,
Chhinnamasta is the only
goddess who
displays the...
- actor-dancers, who
dress up as hero, heroines, gods, goddesses, demons,
demonesses, priests,
animals and
daily life characters. Both
dance forms employ elaborate...
- (十羅刹女),
sometimes translated as the
misnomer ten
demon daughters or ten
demonesses are a
group of rākṣasīs who take on the role of
tutelary deities in Mahayana...
