Indian mythology describes the demons as some supernatural beings with bad qualities and spirit. All over India, these demons are believed to exist. Almost every Hindu works contain the reference of these malicious or mischievous demons.

Most of the demons are supposed to have been originally human beings. It is believed that the persons who had met with a sudden or violent death, especially if they had made themselves dreaded in their life-time then they get transformed into demons. Therefore, demons may either be male or female, of low or high caste, of Hindu or foreign lineage. All demons are however, powerful, malicious, and interfering and all are desirous of bloody sacrifices and frantic dances.

There are different legends from every part of India about the malicious acts of demons and their worships. Many primitive illiterate tribes worship the demons like gods and goddesses. But this practise of worshipping demons results only in the evil powers.

In all Brahmanical myths the demons are represented as the ancient enemies of the gods, as warring against the gods and sometimes gaining the upper hand. The demons are described there as the inventors and special patrons of bloody sacrifices. Every new deity grains prodigious victories over the demons and yet somehow they never are thoroughly conquered.

In all Brahmanical books and legends in which the state of the original inhabitants of Peninsular India is described, it is referred to a period when demons ruled in the primeval jungles. At that the jungles were inhabited solely by vile sinners who ate flesh and offered bloody sacrifices.

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