Places

Middle East

• TaleShush (Susa), Khuzestan, Iran, 638 to 1869

  One writer hangs Daniel's coffin from a bridge at Susa

  Al-Tabari has Daniel's remains found at Susa in 638 and hidden on 'Umar's order. Benjamin of Tudela, about 1167, has his coffin hanging from a bridge.

  

• TalePars and Kerman, Iran, Sasanian era to 1010

  Haftvad and the worm in the Kārnāmag, Tabari and the Shahnameh

  In the Pahlavi Book of Ardashir the worm of Haftānbōxt drinks blood and dies of molten brass; the girl with the apple appears only in Ferdowsi.