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TY  _  JOUR
ID  -  1394060214125930
TI  -  Plant Holiness Displays in Iranian Fairy Tales  (Based on Dictionary of Iranian Myths: Ali Ashraf Darvishian And Reza Khandan Mahabadi 
JO  -  Pazhūhish-i Źabān  va Adabiyyāt-i Farsī
JA  -  ES
LA  -  fa
SN  -  1735-1030
AU  -   
AD  -  
Y1  -  2014
PY  -  2014
VL  -  32
IS  -  0
SP  -  1
EP  -  10
KW  -  Fairy Tales
 Myth
 Herbal Gods
 Tree
 Plants
DO  -  
N2  -  Fairy Tales are a part of popular tales that are full of great and wonderment events. We can unlock thoughts and beliefs which are rooted in human unconscious and have a sublime status in nations’ cultures by reflecting on these tales. Herbal myths are among these beliefs. The article reviews Iran fairy tales from “Dictionary of Iranian Myths” book which are classified in magic and witchery stories No. 300 to 749 in Aarne–Thompson classification system with library method; and it also unlocks constructive elements of these tales with descriptive-analytic method; after these, we analyze the thought of plants’ holiness and presence of herbal heroes which are a various form of herbal and productivity gods. High frequency of believing in wish tree  and its related stories, emergence of fairies and humans through trees and plants shows effective presence of plants’ holiness and hidden link of human and plant in Iranian fairy tales. 
UR  - rimag.ir/en/Article/9932
L1  - rimag.ir/en/Article/Download/9932
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