Motif
Animal-born healing stone
animal_born_healing_stone
A motif of the Sacred Treasures and Power Objects family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
sufi
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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz XXXIII / XXXIV / XXXVI / XXXVII; lines 3862-3889 confidence: medium
The term bezoar is applied to antidotal substances, especially a layered concretion formed in the stomach of some animals and called the bezoar stone.
The bezoar stone is described as an animal stomach concretion obtained from goats, antelopes, llamas, and chamois, and associated with antidotal power.
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