The famous encounter with the demon Raktabija, Blood-seed, who has a peculiar power - if you wound him and his blood hits the ground, a clone springs up which is as powerful as himself and having the same power. To wound him is therefore totally counterproductive. Kali solves the issue by opening wide her gigantic mouth and drinking all the blood that spurts from the demons before they hit the ground! This episode gave her a taste for blood that has still not been slaked and Kali remains the only major Deity in actual worship in the twentieth century to whom daily offerings of blood are made.

In her official debut as it were into the Great tradition, Kali comes in her most uncompromising and horrific forms. Very clearly this is not a god who is going to engage you on soft terms. There are millions of worshippers who do not object to her stern demands.