Iranianfolklore encompasses the folk traditions that have evolved in Greater Iran. Storytelling has an important presence in Iranian culture. In classical...
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as tales,...
scientific meeting on anthropology and folklore in 1990. Iranian mythology consists of ancient Iranianfolklore and stories of extraordinary beings reflecting...
folklore may include any of the following: Arab folklore Armenian folklore Assyrian/Syriac folkloreIranianfolklore Jewish folklore Qatari folklore Turkish...
or Khwāje Piruz (Persian: خواجه پیروز) is a fictional character in Iranianfolklore who appears in the streets by the beginning of Nowruz. His face is...
the Magical in Iranian Horror Films." Frames 16 (2019): 2. Partovi, Pedram (3 December 2009). "Girls' dormitory: Women's Islam and Iranian horror". Visual...
often sung in the Iranian vocal mode of āvāz-e dašti, is closely associated with Iranian folk tunes. Ruhowzi, a musical comedy in Iran's traditional theater...
were originally in pre-Islamic Iran. Although modern-day Iran is a multi-ethnic country (see also Azeri wedding), Iranian wedding traditions are embraced...
mythical creature, half-woman and half-snake, originating in Indo-Iranian and Turkic folklores. The name Shāhmārān comes from the Persian words Shāh (شاه),...
danger by telling stories has been traced back to Indian sources. Indian folklore is represented in the Nights by certain animal stories, which reflect influence...
intimately familiar with Iranian culture seem to agree that taarof is one of the most fundamental things to understand about Iranian culture. According to...
originally told by ancient Persians and other Iranian peoples and a genre of ancient Persian folklore. These stories concern the origin and nature of...
Ferdowsi in the Shahnameh, or Epic of Kings, which contains pre-Islamic Iranianfolklore and history. However, the roots of the narrative date much earlier...
A magic carpet, also called a flying carpet, is a legendary carpet and common trope in fantasy fiction. It is typically used as a form of transportation...
had a lasting influence on Azerbaijani and Iranian literature. Mulla Nasruddin, a figure in Islamic folklore, gained further popularity through the discourses...
Philosophy; the Foundation for Iranian Culture; the Festival of Shiraz, the Tehran Cinema Festival; the IranianFolklore Organization; the Asiatic Institute;...
dehqans were landowning Iranian aristocrats who had flourished under the Sasanian dynasty (the last pre-Islamic dynasty to rule Iran) and whose power, though...
Kamāngīr) is a heroic archer-figure of Iranian mythology. According to Iranianfolklore, the boundary between Iran and Turan was set by an arrow launched...
(بابا نوروز), is a legendary character originating in Iranianfolklore. According to the folklore, he appears annually at the beginning of spring, together...
North Mountain in Native American mythology Nane Sarma, Granma Frost, Iranianfolklore. Ēostre, West Germanic spring goddess; she is the namesake of the festival...
bāzār, from Middle Persian wāzār, from Old Persian wāčar, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wahā-čarana. The term spread from Persian into Arabic and ultimately throughout...
blossoms and the tear-like nectar drops borne by the six nectaries. In Iranianfolklore the nodding flowers are described (in comparison with the upright flowers...
Amir Arsalan-e Namdar (Persian: امیر ارسلان نامدار) is a popular Persian epic, which was told to Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar, the Qajar Shah of Persia in...
is a mythical character in Iranianfolklore. She is the wife of Amu Nowruz, the "Uncle Nowruz". In 2012, the first Iranian folktale of Nane Sarma was...
goat") is the name of the king of goats, a male goat, in the folklore of Azarbaijan, Iran. Takam's effigies are made out of wood and ornamented with coloured...
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