Rakkayi Amman (Tamil: இராக்காயி அம்மன், from irā = "night" and kāvi / kāyi = watchful or blood-colored; plus amman, "mother") is a Tamil gramadevata of the fierce midnight-mother class — invoked against sudden, unexplained afflictions: fever that arrives after dark, stillbirth, crop-blight, the sudden death of livestock. She belongs to the same structural family as Ankalamman, Ellaiyamman ("boundary mother"), and the smaller kaval-ammai of village fringes, and is distinct fro
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