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Overview

An apparent elderly woman claims to be a poor thorn-gatherer’s long-lost sister and invites his family into her comfortable house. She feeds and clothes them until a daughter sees her in wolf form eating a man. The mother understands the hospitality as an effort to fatten the family for slaughter.

The father refuses to believe her warning, so she escapes with the seven daughters. Left behind, he is eaten when the woman again becomes a wolf. The translators’ footnote interprets the tale through tensions involving paternal aunts; that historical generalization is not adopted as a universal account of Iranian families. The character has no personal name in the text.

Human-disguised man-eating wolfNamed textual version
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Origins & earliest records

Kermani 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

    Kermani tales; XVII, pp. 104–107

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)

Kermani tales. Tale XVII, pp. 104–107

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 XVII, pp. 104–107Research access: 2026-10-05
  2. Historical editionOriginal 1919 scan: Internet Archive persiantales00loriialaResearch access: 2026-10-05

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