Such demons are always on the search for weak-minded people and influence them to commit crimes of similar type. A criminal who dies in a nasty accident, his sins and crimes live after him in the shape of spiteful demons, as assassinate devils, theft devils, infidelity devils and so on. Nature of Evil and Demon Spirits in Hindu Mythologyĭemons may be of all and any ranks and may have either distinguished or of low castes, as the cheating devils, deceitful devils, gaming devils and others. They may take the shape of a dog, cat, serpent or other animal. They may even enter human beings through the mouth and may bring about diseases and unpleasant affections of all kinds. Animal blood is their favourite food but they generally feed on corpses and may even dwell in dead bodies. They may take hideous or striking shapes and even the appearance of men. They haunt graveyards or take up trees as their abode. The Pishachas are malevolent and roguish. The ghost of a drunkard, liar, and criminal of any kind, adulterer or one who died as insane is a Pishacha. Pishacha: It is a demon formed due to a man’s vices. It may not necessarily be an evil liable spirit. Preta: It is the spirit of a malformed or crippled person or of one imperfect in some limb or organ or of a child who expires prematurely due to the omission of ceremonies during the creation of the embryo.The one who has not had proper funeral ceremony performed later. Bhoot: It is spirit originating from a man, who has died of a violent incident either by accident, suicide or capital punishment. They are mostly dreaded by the general mass and are therefore mostly worshipped to keep them calm. There are many other forms of evil and demons who has been once the dwellers of human bodies. All malignant devils are believed to have been originally human beings. The existence of these demons is derived from deceased spirits of dead human beings. The second category comprises of those demons, who were created due to man, rather to the spirits of men, who have once lived on the earth. The demons usually act at the orders of the greater deities as Nandi of Lord Siva or the demons, who were decreed by Shiva to destroy the Yajna by Daksha Prajapati. One is created by the Gods during the creation of the world and thus brought into the world as ‘ Demons’. There are two great classifications of such forms of evil and demon spirits in Hindu mythology Death in an accident and formal discarding without proper funeral ceremonies or deaths inflicted by criminals and disposal of the body furtively without proper religious rites changes the transitional body into deadly and fiery ghosts or roaming spirits.įorms of Evil and Demon Spirits in Hindu Mythology Evil and Demon spirits in Hindu mythology are formed depending on the cause and kind of death occurred to the individual.
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