Keres are female death-spirits. They were the goddesses who personified violent death and who were drawn to bloody deaths on battlefields. When they spotted someone dying or dead, they would swoop down, thirsty for human blood. Once caught in their clutches, the victims were dragged off by their feet, and their departing souls would go down to Keres were terrible and violent demons, but they did not have the power to cause death, only to arrive when it was coming and wait to feast on the remans