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Overview
A merchant attracts this bird with burning meat and tricks a servant into a tied cowhide. Mistaking the bundle for prey, the bird carries it to a mountain summit, pecks an opening and flees when the human emerges. The merchant repeatedly exploits this behavior to obtain jewels. The tale gives no species or personal name, so it is not silently equated with the roc or simurgh.
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; LVIII, pp. 344–346
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 LVIII, pp. 344–348
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 LVIII, pp. 344–346Research access: 2026-10-05
- Historical editionOriginal 1919 scan: Internet Archive persiantales00loriialaResearch access: 2026-10-05
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