The Fractious Eye: On the Evil Eye of Menstruants in Zoroastrian Tradition

Abstract

Abstract Like all religions, Zoroastrianism evolved, and its rich textual record provides us with the material to trace some of its developments across the centuries. This article attempts to reconstruct an ancient Iranian myth preserved in Zoroastrian tradition about the dangerous powers of the gaze of menstruating women, and traces its development as it grows out of theAvestaand interacts with Western philosophical traditions in the Middle Persian writings of late antiquity and the early middle ages.

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