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Overview

Seven div sisters live in separate wells a year’s journey apart, each with seven sons. Their horns coil once around the head for each thousand years of life: the eldest has seven coils. They hide a visiting prince from their human-eating sons by turning him successively into household objects, including a needle and a skin rug.

Each demands marriage and possession of the sought princess in return for help. The eldest supplies objects that become obstacles through prayers invoking God and the prophet Suleman. These protect the prince during his escape with the orange containing the princess. The sisters’ explicit horn-age pattern belongs to this Kermani tale, not to every Persian div.

Giant horned sisters who hide a prince from their sonsSpecific translated narrative
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Origins & earliest records

Kermani storytelling, Iran

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Records & interpretation

Complete XXII, pp. 135–147, directly read in original-edition OCR; regional contents checked.

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    Persian Tales

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

    Kermani tales; XXII, The Story of the Orange and Citron Princess, pp. 135–147

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Direct primary record

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

Kermani tales. XXII, pp. 135–147

Full narrative read in cached original-edition OCR, including the final reunion and punishment. Page headers and contents checked. No unsupported Persian spelling supplied; human racial caricature not adopted.

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  1. Historical translated folktaleLorimer, Persian Tales (1919), XXII, pp. 135–147Research access: 2026-10-05

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