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The study of magic and sorcery in the Amir Arsalan e naamdaar story. CFL 2017; 5 (18) :105-130
URL: http://cfl.modares.ac.ir/article-11-1614-en.html
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Folk tales reporter's stories and adventures of people from different social classes and generally low reputation who accidentally faced with incidents, exemplary events, wisdom and wonderful the stories portray the culture of each nation and stems from people's dreams and fantasies. Actually, beliefs and practices of early humans is the source of these stories the emergence of supernatural forces
such as palaces, mysterious, magical gardens, wells and dark spaces, demons, fairies, dragons, magic, lightning, Happiness and unlucky, various sleep, anesthesia and geomancy and astrolabe and etc are the most important elements of creating an Iranian story and all the stories which was written by the novelist in the East territories such as India. Amir Arsalaan e naamdaar story is familiar among folk tales which is the last Persian folk tale features an ancient story
The story mentioned the main features of Persian folk tale, especially magic the magic tricks that some people did in stories and can change the laws of nature through tricks and do extraordinary things. In these stories, wizards can they spell people neutralize other spells change the appearance of people and objects or predict future events. The authors plan to study magic and witchcraft in this book as a folk tale features
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Article Type: Research Paper | Subject: Folklore
Received: 2016/07/14 | Accepted: 2017/12/11 | Published: 2017/12/13

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