Then, even as I puzzled to know what the thing was, a memory slid into my mind, and straightway, I knew that I was looking at a monstrous representation of Kali, the Hindu goddess of death.

While still smarting under the loss of his valuables, the Babu received another letter from Raghu Dacoit asking, "Had his visit given Madhub Babu pleasure?" Girl as Kali-Ma A large and well-to-do family lived happily in a country place in Bengal.

She had a swarthy complexion like Kali, the dacoits' divinity.

The flickering glare of their torches fell upon a life-like image of Kali the Terrible.

Kali-Ma!", the thieves fell prostrate at her feet.

"Come, brothers, we touch nothing where Mother Kali is worshipped."

It was famous for a temple erected in honor of Kali, the fearful wife of the god Siva, the most cruel, vindictive and relentless of all the heathen deities.

The temple still stands, being more than 400 years old, and "Kali, the Black One," still sits upon her altar, hideous in appearance, gorgon-headed, wearing a necklace of human skulls and dripping with fresh blood from the morning sacrifice of sheep and goats.

It is the only notable temple in Calcutta, and is visited by tourists, but they are allowed to go only so far and no farther, for fear that Kali might be provoked by the intrusion.

A little beyond the Temple of Kali is the burning ghat of Calcutta.

For Béda was visited by many of his kindred, such as Mitlan and Kali and Thragnar and Pwyll and Apepi and other evil principles, who were perpetually coming to the gray hut for family reunions, and to rehearse all but one of the two hundred and forty thousand spells of the Capuas.

"Superstitious Natives said it was the revenge of Goddess Kali for not sacrificing, and superstitious Europeans said it was a microbe created by their God to punish unhygienic way of living.

Both were due to Kali.

And, O foremost of virtuous women, lamenting for me day and night, and overcome with sorrow, thou hadst in the woods cursed Kali, and so he began to dwell in my body, burning in consequence of thy curse.

Thou knowest it not, O fool, that it was Kali who did it all.

And, O thou of unfading glory, this history, destructive of the influence of Kali, is capable, O king, of comforting persons like thee when they listen to it.

It hath been said that in the Satyayuga all the tirthas were sacred; in the Treta, Pushkara alone was such; in Dwapara, Kurukshetra; and in the Kali-yuga, the Ganga alone is sacred.

And when the Daityas and the Danavas, deprived of sense by pride, were possessed by adversity, Kali also sought to possess them.

this period is the junction between the Treta and the Kali age, O Kunti's son!

Then the Rani made him swear by Kali that he would give her the medicine she wanted, and he swore blindly.

One night the goddess Kali came to the Raja's palace and knocked at the gate: but no one would come to open it.

Seeing him, Kali Ma, said that she was so hungry that she must eat him, though she had intended to eat the people in the palace.

Afterwards gaining admission to the palace Kali Ma ate up everyone in it except the Raja's daughter.

In the town are the following: The KALI MASJID, or Black Mosque, otherwise called the Kalan Masjid, or Grand Mosque, is of the early Akbar style.

THUGS, a fraternity of professed worshippers of the goddess Kali, the wife of Siva, who, professedly to propitiate her, practised murder, and lived on the spoils of the victims.