Čivał

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Čivał , also Chival or Chual ( the torturer ), was called an evil spirit in Armenian mythology , who haunted the dreams of sleepers at night in order to terrify them.

Chival belongs to the group of devs .

literature

  • Carsten Colpe: Gods and Myths of the Caucasian and Iranian Peoples . tape 4 . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-12-909840-2 , p. 109 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Gerhard J. Bellinger: Knaurs Lexikon der Mythologie . Droemer Knaur, Augsburg 2001, ISBN 3-8289-4154-0 , p. 102 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in timeforfantasy.de ( Memento from October 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed November 30, 2012)