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Overview

A maiden joins Fayiz while he plays his flute in the mountains and takes him to a richly furnished home. Their marriage requires fidelity, and after they have two sons she expressly forbids him to disclose her secret. When he wants to visit his earlier household, her recitation returns them to the original meeting place.

She remains able to observe him invisibly. Under pressure from his human wife, Fayiz tells the story, whereupon the peri announces their separation, becomes a pigeon and flies back to her sons. He cannot find her again. This tale supplies transformation and invisibility, without describing the permanently winged human body familiar from some other peri imagery.

Mountain spouse with pigeon transformationNamed textual version
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Origins & earliest records

Bakhtiari storytelling, Iran

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Records & interpretation

Complete tale and all continuation pages directly read; original edition contents checked for regional division and locators.

Selected bibliography

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    Persian Tales

    D. L. R. Lorimer and E. O. Lorimer, collectors/translators · 1919

    Bakhtiari tales; XXXV, pp. 232–235

Family & connections

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Primary records and illustrations

Direct primary record

D. L. R. Lorimer and E. O. Lorimer, Persian Tales (London: Macmillan, 1919)

Bakhtiari tales. Tale XXXV, pp. 232–235

Complete narrative, including every continuation page, read; historical scan OCR contents confirms regional ordering. Individual narrator not supplied. Modern site presentation is not treated as a new authored tale.

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References

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  1. Historical translated folktaleD. L. R. and E. O. Lorimer, Persian Tales (1919), tale XXXV, pp. 232–235Research access: 2026-10-05
  2. Historical editionOriginal 1919 scan: Internet Archive persiantales00loriialaResearch access: 2026-10-05

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