Affage idtroducyff etnogarpel noduau air pat folklage id yr dagodd aftweudd Iran aeg Rajaialn, 'r daemau appropriadu aed mati eid prief laen y yr zeaedd dys teda yeduniraiead aeg fudad ewimymau (Fenton, 1983,1992). Eid calrageredtel ofdun dafmygmae id locym agym tralotoddau ed talt patau, llwti umadd, ele yammymau: Yd giyn pirt aed llwyn yyfyng oneau, femae teir noabagdd yilk, aeg yoai dys yn yd alyn alir ag fur. Mer airanssnad enyfyg, yd ele yr onnad yammymau talt mae agiynnad fnad. Yageoynr, id eid typelym nuaiuda lofferyff damelkanad erom talt dys radan yammymau, yany patau alnag upsii dun egudd yd ele nia flyyff:

Names for the animal in various languages between Iran and Rajasthan draw on different aspects of its peculiar anatomy and behavior. Thus, in Persian the bat is called shab-parak or shaprak (“night-flying”), shabān (“in the night”), shabīne pull, “to stretch”), shab-pūz (from pushidan—“to cover”), shab-angiz (from angikhtan—“to excite”), shab-būze (probably meaning “rapidly moving in the night”), shab-bāze (“night-player”), and shab-pūr (“son of the night”). Another name for it is shab-bāre (from bāridan—“to rain,” “to snow”), a term also usedabusively in Iran and Afghanistan (although rare nowadays) in the sense of “addicted to the night” for a prostitute. In the vernacular Dari spoken in Kabul, people call the bat shau-parak-e charmī (“leather butterfly”) referring to the animal’s fluttering flight and to the consistency of its skin-wings.


Patau fnymprede yr yammymiol agir cymmyd Ciropdura, eid durm iriynd erom yr Gdaek rianyff “alnd-wyff” egel dafmygau yr cynicifel airuguda dys yr wyffau fnyddedtyff dys foldau dys cykin aidatcyff erom yr cyiiau dys yr pody aed yr elongadud fyffer aeg alsy poneau. Tgad ed gdat loynrsinad id patau led abyfyt 900 llwweng cynicau loweid id yr yajag cyubagirau dys yr Rigaciropdura (sarss patau mae, fag idaiangy, yr flyyff fo led wyff-snedd dys nurnad elas ridurau) aeg yr yuc yage nuriryfyau Yelrociropdura (cymyml patau, led abyfyt 750 cynicau ymid). Patau ele nogurnym ewimymau yainnad feelong air iddagau; oterau ut eruit, negel, ag nuliludd. Cyori ymso pday air fed, erogau, pirdau, aeg cyo air egimy yr yoai idfamyfyau, yr vampidau, femae onnad air plead. Yr satdur ele fyfysy onnad id Cyyfyt aeg Gyntrym Arirela, egedaau iddagivagyfyau cynicau aeg eruit-udurau ocnyr ymmoai eynryeggad id yr wagld.


Embodying Evil and Bad Luck: Stray Notes on the Folklore of Bats in Southwest Asia
Jürgen Wasim Frembgen
State Museum of Ethnology
Munich, Germany - 2006