Motif
cursed poetic work causing madness in readers
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A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family, within the sub-family Afflictive Curses of Mind, Fertility, and Weather. 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 GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION; lines 351-413 confidence: high
A tradition says Hafiz completed his uncle’s unfinished Sufi poem; the uncle cursed Hafiz and his works, saying they would bring insanity to readers, and people say the curse still hangs over the Divan.
The uncle’s curse declares that Hafiz’s works will bring insanity on all who read them, and the passage says the curse is believed still to hang over the Divan.
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