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Question: When does a monster become a goddess? Answer: When society realises it created the monster. Neeli was Kerala’s very own vampire. Her full name in the various legends of the state is Kalliyankattu Neeli. She is not a ‘vampire’ in the Western sense. The idea of a blood-sucking undead being, like Dracula with his ruined castle in a dark forest, comes largely from European Gothic imagination. In Kerala’s folklore, Neeli is a yaks...
