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In Hindu myth, Bhainsasura is a great elephantine creature with the head of a water buffalo. It spends its time destroying crops and terrorizing villages and can only be appeased with the offering of a pig. It makes its appearance during the rice harvest, expecting to be properly propitiated with sacrifice; if it does not receive offerings, it will reappear during the wheat harvest and roll upon the ripening crops, crushing the grain.