As the Matsya purana describes it, Narasimha ripped "apart the mighty Daitya chief as a plaiter of straw mats shreds his reeds".

If you think that plaiting is easy stuff, by the way, you have only to look at some examples of a three-dimensional technique known as mad weave because its complicated pattern is supposed to test the sanity of the plaiter.

Talmudic passages speak of a Miriam "hamegadela se'ar nasha", "Miriam, the plaiter of women's hair" (Hagigah 4b; cf. Shabbat 104b), which could be a reference to Mary Magdalene serving as a hairdresser.