BY TRADITION

Anatolian, Kurdish, and Persian folklore

1 record of Anatolian, Kurdish, and Persian folklore — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.

ShahmaranWater · Turkey · Kurdistan · Iran · AnatoliaShahmaran (Şahmeran, Şamaran), “sovereign of the snakes,” is a woman-serpent of Persian, Kurdish, Arabic, and Anatolian story. She teaches medicine in an underground garden; a broken promise delivers her to a sick king. Images still hang in Tarsus and Mardin homes.