The Old Ways

Zoroastrian · The Book of Arda Viraf · 81 of 96

Chapter 86. [Khwetodas]

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

1. Then I saw the soul of a woman, (2) through whose body a grievous [prickly?] snake ascended, and came forth by the mouth. 3. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body, where the soul suffers so severe a punishment?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: ['This is the soul of that wicked woman who violated a next-of-kin [khwetodas] marriage.'