The kamagarini are the malevolent spirits of Matsigenka cosmology, the countless little devils breathed forth by the counter-creator Kientibakori. Their name carries the sense of death, and they are the mirror-image of Tasorintsi's pure saankarite: where the pure spirits heal and protect, the kamagarini bring sickness, misfortune, and death. They haunt the forest, especially by night and in storms, and are dangerous to the solitary traveller; they can assume the guise of animals or of alluring people to deceive and to seize a victim's soul. Much of the tobacco shaman's work consists of recognising, resisting, and driving off these creatures, whose master dwells downriver with his demonic host.