the div that throws Rostam off a cliff to trick him — Akvan and the oldest jump-scare in literature

Sticking with Ferdowsi because the Shahnameh is full of stuff people skip past. The div, plural divan, aren't your cute genie-in-a-lamp. They're the Zoroastrian daevas, demons of Ahriman, horned, tusked, often described with leopard-spotted bodies and the strength to throw boulders. The one I keep c……