The Old Ways

Zoroastrian · The Book of Arda Viraf · 27 of 96

CHAPTER 26

tr. Martin Haug and E. W. West (1872)

1. I also saw the soul of a woman (2) who ever stretched out her tongue on her neck, and she was suspended from the atmosphere. 3. And I asked thus: 'Whose soul is this?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked woman who, in the world, scorned her husband and master, and cursed, abused and defied him.'