The Mythology of All Races, volume 7: Armenian, Indo-Iranian and Iranian material

Record summary

Louis Herbert Gray’s Iranian Mythology presents material from Zoroastrian and Persian traditions, including demons, heroic adversaries, magical creatures, and animal-human boundaries. Figures such as divs and related monstrous beings offer comparison with Middle Eastern shape-changing traditions, although not every cited figure is explicitly a shapeshifter. The volume is valuable as a period bibliography and transmission record. Its translations, source selection, and evolutionary comparisons are dated, so individual claims should be checked against Avestan, Middle Persian, and Persian textual scholarship.