Jaracacas One of the species of vampire found in Brazil, normally appearing in the shape of a snake feeding from the breasts of nursing mothers. Children are pushed out of the way by the creature, which keeps them quiet by shoving its tails in their mouths. Jigarkhwar Also jigarkhor, a type of witch or sorceress found in the Sind region of India, exhibiting vampire traits and most noted for her ability to extract a person's liver through a powerful, piercing stare, and incantations. Usually a women, the creature renders a person unconscious and removes the organ, which takes the shape of a pomegranate seed, hidden for a time in the magician's calf. The liver is thrown in a fire, expands, and is eaten, at which time the victim dies. Rescue is possible by finding the jigarkhwar, ripping the seed out of the legg, returning it to the proper person, who then swollows it. The power of the witches can be broken by branding them on sides of the head, filling their eyes with salt, and hanging them in an underground chamber for forty days. A former jigarkhwar can detect her own kind.