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Overview

Taling’s mother eats half an apple supplied by a dervish; a sheep consumes the rest. Her child has one arm and one leg, unlike his six paternal half-brothers. This anatomical detail is explicit in the Bakhtiari narrative, unlike the less specific Kermani Nim Tanak version.

He defeats the beard-bearing div who imprisoned his brothers and frees its captives. When the rescued brothers plot to kill him in a pit, he hides in a treasure chest they haul out. He later exposes their betrayal at home. Bodily difference does not prevent him becoming the successful rescuer.

Miraculously born one-armed, one-legged rescuerNamed textual version
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Origins & earliest records

Bakhtiari 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

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

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    Persian Tales

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

    Bakhtiari tales; XXXVIII, pp. 251–255

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)

Bakhtiari tales. Tale XXXVIII, pp. 251–255

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 XXXVIII, pp. 251–255Research access: 2026-10-05
  2. Historical editionOriginal 1919 scan: Internet Archive persiantales00loriialaResearch access: 2026-10-05

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