The antagonist of renowned writer Anne Rice's "The Mayfair Witches" trilogy, Lasher, is revealed to be a "Taltos" which is the name given to the Picts in the Anne Rice literary universe. Rice's Pictish Taltos people are not people or humans per se, rather they are a similar looking but vastly genetically different primate which can therefore engage in sexual acts with humans which rarely produces viable offspring, Taltos or Taltos-human hybrids, and usually resulting in the death of female mothers birthing them with the exception of human "witches" which have genetic predispositions that allow some to survive such inter-species breeding. The Stonehenge of the Salisbury Plains are attributed to Rice's humanized, complex mythological Taltos Pictish character of Saint Ashlar. Taltos can live for thousands of years but can die from blunt force trauma and trances induced by dancing or music. They are said to be a "childlike" people, as any sexual acts between fertile heterosexual Taltos couples instantaneously results in the rapid conception and birth of a new Taltos, all of which mature within hours to sexual maturity as described in Anne Rice's novels "Lasher" (book 2 of the trilogy) and "Taltos" (3rd and final book).