Licking the wounds of the enemy

In Vedic scriptures, the world is often compered to a battle field and the self to a warrior. The process of Yoga, spiritual progress, is compered to a battle. So is the case in the Bhagavad-Gita where Arjuna comes face to face with his inner demons before actually going to battle. He finds out that defeating these demons may be more complicated then he thought and that he may have left himself unguarded in places he should. And here is another description of a battle:
An historical tale is told in the Devi Mhatmya about Mother Durga who was in battle against a terrible demon called Raktabija ("one who's blood is seed"). No matter how many time she wounded the demon, she could not defeat him, for that demon had a unique ability: every drop of his blood that falls to the ground would turn to a replica of the demon. Every time the mother strike the demon with one of her weapons, the drops of blood who fall to the ground would immediately turn to more enemies for her to fight. How can you defeat such a demon? in fact, if you look around you, and maybe inside you, you'll find there are many of these Raktabija demons around. You fight them, and they get stronger. They seem to be undefeated. That is the demon Mother Durga fought. But then the Divine mother found a way to defeat the demon: She expanded herself to another form of her, Kali, the black mother. Kali-Ma has a terrible dark form, holding weapons and wearing a garland of skulls. The dark mother then reached out her long tongue and start licking the demon's wounds, preventing the blood from reaching the ground. And in this way the demons deadly ability was prevented. And thous, by the licking of his wounds the demon was defeated, rather then striking him harder. You may use this information to defeate the Rakabija demons in your life.

A small Kali shrine I found in a small village in West-Bengal