Zoroastrian · The Book of Arda Viraf · 35 of 96
CHAPTER 34
tr. Martin Haug and E. W. West (1872)
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1. I also saw the soul of a woman (2) whose whole body the noxious creatures (khrafstars) ever gnawed. 3. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked woman who, in the world, dressed her hair-curls and hair over the fire; (6) and threw hairs from, the head and scurf and hair of the body upon the fire; (7) and introduced fire under the body, and held herself on the fire.'