BY TRADITION
Persian folklore
3 records of Persian folklore — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.
DīvThe Persian dīv (dev, dēw) is the demon, ogre, and fiend of Iranian epic and folktale, descended from Avestan daeva. In the Shahnameh they rule a mythical Mazandaran; in oral tales they sleep in sunlight, hide an external soul, and go mad the language itself—dīvānegī.PalisA desert predator of Persian travel literature and later folkloristic compilations, the palis or pā-līs (“foot-licker”) drains sleeping travellers by licking the soles of the feet. Sources do not agree on a body; they agree on the habit and on a famous muleteers’ trick.PeriThe Persian parī (peri) descends from Avestan pairikā, female demonic beings of the old religion, and in later folklore becomes a winged, often beautiful people of tales—ambivalent, organised like humans, and not the same as jinn even when the words blur.
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