Evaluation of Magical and Healing medicines, and Therapeutic Methods in Scrolls of Storytelling

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Phd at Qom univercity

2 Associate professor qom univercity

Abstract

One of the motives considered a constant and the most applied element in epic texts and the storyteller’s scrolls, is searching for medicines that are supernatural and healing, and that many events are happening around this search. In epics there are strange plants and fruits that have magical properties. Also, there are magical and healing balms that come from herbs, demons' body parts (including horn, brain, heart and liver), the dragon oil or the feather of Simurgh, and they miraculously heal wounds. Magic potions, magic beads, healing mineral springs, healing through prayers and enchantment and, becoming blessed are among the magic items in epic narratives and storyteller’s scrolls. The saints, the devout, the spiritual guides, the kings, the heroes, Simurgh, Zal (Rostam’s father), and the magicians are among the therapists or witch doctorswhose practices of treatment are reflected in the storyteller’s scrolls. This article aims to do a briefly descriptive-analytical study on the therapies, magical and healing medications in narrators’ scrolls

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Journal of Prose Studies in Persian Literature
Volume 23, Issue 47
June 2020
Pages 143-170

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