The Old Ways

Zoroastrian · The Book of Arda Viraf · 61 of 96

Chapter 66.

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

1. I also saw the souls of a man and a woman (2) whose tongues were put out, and ever gnawed by the jaws of serpents. 3. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by the body of these? (4) and who are those souls?' 5. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (6) thus: 'These are the souls of that wicked who, in the world, ever committed slander, and embroiled people together.'