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Overview
A father confines his son underground after an astrologer predicts death by a wolf. When the grown son marries his cousin, she suddenly becomes a wolf in their private chamber and kills him, then returns to her human form. At morning she can report the transformation but cannot explain its cause. The closing interpretation stresses unavoidable fate. Unlike the calculating Wolf-aunt elsewhere in the collection, this bride is not described as planning the killing or knowingly adopting a disguise.
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; XLIII, pp. 291–292
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 XLIII, pp. 291–292
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 XLIII, pp. 291–292Research access: 2026-10-05
- Historical editionOriginal 1919 scan: Internet Archive persiantales00loriialaResearch access: 2026-10-05
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