Mythological Buddhist figures, one holding a captive and showing him an image in a magic mirror of a man falling off a boat during a fight. In Buddhism, wrathful deities are enlightened beings who take on wrathful forms in order to lead sentient beings to enlightenment. They are a notable feature of the iconography of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism. A wrathful deity is often an alternative manifestation of a bodhisattva or other normally peaceful figure, making the representations of all human vices and atrocities. No artist credited, dated 1878.