Rakshasa's mistress with her head severed lying in a pool of blood

Motif

Rakshasa's mistress with her head severed lying in a pool of blood.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Other ogres. · Ogres with monstrous features. · view the constellation · filed as G369.1.7

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Rakshasa. Dog or ape-shaped; red hair and eyes; mouth reaching from ear to ear; ears pointed like spears; shape-changers; cannibals; three heads, five feet, four eyes, no fingers, bear-neck, horns. Attack women.

Filed beside it

Rakshasas have power of extending bodies eighty miles Rakshasa can be defeated by hero who has rakshasi blood in his veins Rakshasa eats many of the domestic animals each night Rakshasa eats horse, dog, and child. Suspected Ranis ordered for execution Man persecuted by a rakshasa in form of beautiful wench Rakshasa hidden in deer's head swallows men

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