| Being admitted to the palace, he slays both Aegisthus and clytaemnestra. |
| When Indra slays Vrita, Brahmahatya, a terrible retributive apparition, like the Erinyes or Furies of Greek myth, pursues him. |
| In the Avesta, Thraetaona slays the three-headed, three-mouthed, six-eyed dragon, Azi Dahaka. |
| So runs the strange tale, how the lovers twain One sword, one sepulchre, one memory, Slays, and entombs, and brings to life again. |
| As they fight on, kumara finds an opening, and slays Taraka with his lance, to the unbounded delight of the universe. |
| Hans, Dayal and Pravin of Magic Lantern started with Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky with all its nonsense words about a brave boy who slays a monster. |
