various purposes. Many religious traditions recommend killing animals to avoid from disaster. In order to get rid of the evil and throw it into the blood and non-blood forms, apotropaic belief is common among the people of Bakhtiari. Based on the thaughts of the Islamic religion and the Eid al- Adha, the Bakhtiari people, sacrifice animals on mountains like sheep, goats and cattle. Another reason people kill animals is to remove evil in wedding ceremony.Among other ritual, it should mention writing pray, Damband Kardan. The aim of this study is to show how and why the tradition is held and also ways of apotropaic belief with blood via killing animals in Bakhtiari tribe.By adopting descriptive –analytical research methodology, this research shows that Bakhtiari tribe follow sacrificing traditions to obey God’s sayings, but some part of it has mythological appearance and traces; such as killing animals on the top of the mountains and ornamenting animals to be killed under tree, pouring blood on the ground and putting blood on the face and head.
 
 

Keywords: Folk culture, Bakhtiari, anthropology, Apotropaic belief, Sacrifice, Non-bloody and apotropaic ritual

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