Barry Lee Dejasu Wrote:Recently, the Sci-Fi channel has been playing marathon-length strings of Kolchak: The Night Stalker episodes, which is good because I love the show. Anyway...one of the episodes which I'd completely forgotten about was on just a week or two ago, and it featured a certain kind of Indian demon which walked around in various guises which appeal to the eyes of the beholder. I do believe this creature was called...Rakshasa! Yes, the very one upon which a certain other kind of demon was based by The Man...
I remember hearing, back when the series was in production, Kolchak was based in some ways on John Keel.
The Rakoshi are characters in Roger Zelazny's Lord Of Light novel, as well.
In that one, they are beings of pure energy who can posess people and control them. The main characters are humans in the far future, who take on the attributes of Hindu gods in order to rule over a planetary colony, the Rakoshi are the remnants of the original inhabitants of the planet.
In that one, they are beings of pure energy who can posess people and control them. The main characters are humans in the far future, who take on the attributes of Hindu gods in order to rule over a planetary colony, the Rakoshi are the remnants of the original inhabitants of the planet.