vāi jāgmī vāi are malevolent entities that resulted when the first shaman subdued the first witches, popularly thought of as a minor spirit commanded by them. It was suggested that they might be the same as vāyu, but this was debated."It is popularly believed that a person who meets with fatal accidents such as tree-falls, burn, drowning, hemorrhage, or when he dies of boils, or when a corpse is polluted by a cat, dog, or matawāl… becomes a vayu. Having been obliged to do so it almost surely returns to trouble in various ways one or many of its sapinda kinsgroup." (Sharma [1970:32]).The common meaning of jāgmī is 'injury, wound," but another possibility was "a terrible person," whose death may have produced the vāi in question.