- Fulad-zereh
Fulad-zereh (Persian: فولادزره) meaning " [possessing]
steel armor," is the name of a huge horned demon in the Persian story ofAmir Arsalan .Fulad-zereh made aerial wanderings and spotted and kidnapped beautiful women.
Early in his career he was the chief general of the
fairy king,Malek Khazen , who ruled over the land ofZahrgiah .Fulad-zereh's mother, a powerful
witch in her own right, used a charm to make Fulad-zereh's body invulnerable to all weapons except the blows of a specific sword calledShamshir-e Zomorrodnegar .At the end of the story, however, both Fulad-zereh and his mother were slain by Amir Arsalan.
Bibliography
*Mohammad-Ali Naqib-al-Mamalek, Amir Arsalan-e Rumi, ed. M. J. Mahjub, Tehran, 1340 sh./1961
*German translation: R. Gelpke as Amir Arsalan: Liebe und Abenteuer des Amir Arsalan, Zurich, 1965References
* [http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/v10f3/v10f301.html Encyclopaedia Iranica (article by M. Omidsalar)]
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