Editing Simurgh (section)

===In Kurdish folklore===
Simurgh is shortened to "sīmir" in the [[Kurdish language]].<ref name="Iranica"/> The scholar [[Kamilla Trever|C. V. Trever]] quotes two Kurdish folktales about the bird.<ref name="Iranica"/> These versions go back to the common stock of Iranian simorḡ stories.<ref name="Iranica"/> In one of the folk tales, a hero rescues the simurgh's offspring by killing a snake that was crawling up the tree to feed upon them. As a reward, the simurgh gives him three of her feathers which the hero can use to call for her help by burning them. Later, the hero uses the feathers, and the simurgh carries him to a distant land. In the other tale, the simurgh carries the hero out of the netherworld; here the simurgh feeds its young with its teats, a trait which agrees with the description of the simurgh in the [[Middle Persian]] book of [[Zadspram]]. In another tale, simurgh feeds the hero on the journey while the hero feeds simurgh with pieces of sheep's fat.