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Overview
An aged female div occupies a fort beside the caravan road, robbing travelers and eating people. The grateful dead youth kills her with his sword, frees her surviving prisoners and secures the accumulated treasure. Her age, predation and fortified dwelling are explicit; horns or additional monstrous anatomy are not.
Origins & earliest records
Kermani storytelling, Iran
Records & interpretation
Complete tale and all continuation pages directly read; original edition contents checked for regional division and locators.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
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Persian Tales
Kermani tales; XXVII, pp. 169–175
Family & connections
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Primary records and illustrations
D. L. R. Lorimer and E. O. Lorimer, Persian Tales (London: Macmillan, 1919)
Kermani tales. Tale XXVII, pp. 169–175
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 XXVII, pp. 169–175Research access: 2026-10-05
- Historical editionOriginal 1919 scan: Internet Archive persiantales00loriialaResearch access: 2026-10-05
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