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The Fractious Eye:

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The Fractious Eye:

[Article]

On the Evil Eye of Menstruants in Zoroastrian Tradition

Shai Secunda

Leiden

Brill

Like all religions, Zoroastrianism evolved, and its rich textual record provides us with the material to trace some of its developments across the centuries. This article attempts to reconstruct an ancient Iranian myth preserved in Zoroastrian tradition about the dangerous powers of the gaze of menstruating women, and traces its development as it grows out of the Avesta and interacts with Western philosophical traditions in the Middle Persian writings of late antiquity and the early middle ages. Like all religions, Zoroastrianism evolved, and its rich textual record provides us with the material to trace some of its developments across the centuries. This article attempts to reconstruct an ancient Iranian myth preserved in Zoroastrian tradition about the dangerous powers of the gaze of menstruating women, and traces its development as it grows out of the Avesta and interacts with Western philosophical traditions in the Middle Persian writings of late antiquity and the early middle ages.

2014

83-108

Numen

61/1

1568-5276

Avestan

Babylonian Talmud

evil eye

Iranian mythology

menstruation

Pahlavi

Videvdad

Zand

Zoroastrianism

Shai Secunda

10.1163/15685276-12341302

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[Article]

275578

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