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Overview
This div’s enormous white beard emerges from the ground before its owner. It challenges travelers to wrestle for seven pots of food, binds defeated opponents with beard hairs and keeps prisoners for eating. Taling throws it down and decapitates it. The rolling head leads him into the prison cave, enabling the captives’ rescue.
Origins & earliest records
Bakhtiari storytelling, Iran
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
Bakhtiari tales; XXXVIII, pp. 251–255
Family & connections
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Primary records and illustrations
D. L. R. Lorimer and E. O. Lorimer, Persian Tales (London: Macmillan, 1919)
Bakhtiari tales. Tale XXXVIII, pp. 251–255
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.
References
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- Historical translated folktaleD. L. R. and E. O. Lorimer, Persian Tales (1919), tale XXXVIII, pp. 251–255Research access: 2026-10-05
- Historical editionOriginal 1919 scan: Internet Archive persiantales00loriialaResearch access: 2026-10-05
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