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This version of the rakshasa was heavily inspired by an episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker [30] entitled "Horror in the Heights," which aired on December 20, 1974. [citation needed] Rakshasa appears in the Unicorn: Warriors Eternal episode "Darkness Before Dawn". He is a humanoid tiger similar to the D&D depiction.
In an alternate mythology, Hayagriva refers to a demon who stole the Vedas and was slain by Vishnu in his Matsya (fish) avatar, a story presented in the Bhagavata Purana. [ 10 ] [ 12 ] In a third version, a mythology presented in medieval era Devi-Bhagavata Purana , Vishnu appears in a hybrid human-body, horse-headed form called Hiyagriva who ...
Druj, meaning “demoness,” [2] is commonly used as a prefix for Nasu and other female daevas. Druj is a feminine Avestan language word meaning “falsehood,” the opposition of asha, or “truth.” [3] Druj is the root for the adjective drəguuaṇt, meaning “owner of falsehood,” which “[designates] all beings who choose druj over asha."
In Hinduism, Bhasmasura (Sanskrit: भस्मासुर, Bhasmāsura) is an asura or demon, who was granted the power to burn up and immediately turn into ashes (bhasma) anyone whose head he touched with his hand.
Amafufunyana is an unspecified "culture-bound" syndrome named by the traditional healers of the Xhosa people that relates to claims of demonic possession due to members of the Xhosa people exhibiting aberrant behavior and psychological concerns. [1]
Demons are believed to spring into existence, fully grown (known as opapatika in the Pali language) rather than being given birth by a mother. [2] However, some demons, like the Kola Sanni Yaka have been born to human parents and later become demons. [3]
In Jewish mythology, a dybbuk (/ ˈ d ɪ b ə k /; Yiddish: דיבוק, from the Hebrew verb דָּבַק dāḇaq meaning 'adhere' or 'cling') is a malicious possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. [1] It supposedly leaves the host body once it has accomplished its goal, sometimes after being exorcised. [2 ...