Lasi (recorded by Shakespear as 'Lāshi') is the divine owner and keeper of wild game in traditional Mizo religion, a power of the deep forest who controls the beasts of the wilderness and dispenses success in the hunt. A Mizo hunter sought Lasi's favour with sacrifice — characteristically a female piglet offered with an incantation — to be made a skilled and fortunate pasaltha (hunter-hero); without her blessing the chase failed. In Mizo oral narrative Lasi appears as a beautiful, often forest-dwelling female being who may take a human hunter as a lover and thereafter guide his hunting so that he never returns empty-handed, a motif crystallised in the famed tale of Chawngtinleri, the human maiden carried off to be queen among the Lasi. She personifies the Mizo sense that the wild and its creatures belong to a presiding spirit-owner whose consent governs all taking of life in the forest.