The closest resemblances to them in outer water forms are among the _Gymnoblastic Hydroids_, notably _Clavetella prolifera_, a most interesting ambulatory form of six tentacles.
Almost every bather in Southern waters, Northern too, knows the pain that contact with certain "jelly fish" produces.

The _Yekta's_ development was prodigious and, to us, monstrous.

It secretes in its five heads an almost incredibly swiftly acting poison which I suspect, for I had no chance to verify the theory, destroys the entire nervous system to the accompaniment of truly infernal agony; carrying at the same time the illusion that the torment stretches through infinities of time.

Both ether and nitrous oxide gas produce in the majority this sensation of time extension, without of course the pain symptom.

What Lakla called the _Yekta_ kiss is I imagine about as close to the orthodox idea of Hell as can be conceived.