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During the long course of its popularity in India, Saktism made its influence felt and recognised more or less by almost all the religious faiths including even Buddhism, and there were changes in the conception of Devi and the methods of her worship in different ages and climes. As we have already said, female deities were not rarely brought into existence by interested people, and goddesses of local importance were pulled up to the status of Devi or an incarnation of hers, and for these purposes many new myths were fabricated and the relevant old ones were changed conveniently to suit the occasions. But the existing Puranic works could not, in many cases, be made to accommodate these innovations. So, new works in the forms of Upapuranas had to be composed to place these goddesses and the methods of their worship on a Sastric basis. But unfortunately, many of these works, being of minor importance, could not continue their existence for long and became extinct without leaving any trace at all. It is only about a very few of a little more interest that we can have some information from the existing works, and this will be evident from our accounts of them as given in the following pages.