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It was not just the uneducated human in ancient times who believed in an invisible magic powers in the world, and people have always believed in “ANIMISM” and “FITSH”. From many long time ago, people used to think that some objects, animals, and sky and stars have these invisible magic powers.  Because of his little amount of knowledge, he had no chance of understanding the scientific rules that run the world. So he began to believe       in the influence of these invisible magic powers over his daily life in order to make reason for bad events of his life or even to prevent them. He had to adjust every little things of his life to these believes. In Iranian religion before Islam, like other ancient religions, many superstitions looked legal and rightful, and also believing in the influence of sky and stars on days and years;  in astrology, and in prediction  was very usual.  In this research, different kinds of prediction  according to the middle Persian texts will be studied: prediction based  on inspiration, influence of sky and stars on days and years, the things that should be done and not should be done on specific days, soothsaying texts based on numbers in a Zoroastrian Omen Manuscript, including: the  number omen with numbers1-5, the omen of JAMASP E HAKIM, and omen of ANAAMOL.

Keywords: Magic, Prediction, Omen, Iranian religion, Number omen

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