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creatures in the Middle East from anonymous.

Mar desma. Mar, does Ma, it's a monster that feeds on one thing. Fear. I'm very happy to say that I personally

have had no encounters with it.

But the stories that you might hear about it are usually told by people who are not liars.

Allow me to explain what it is, first with some history. I live in Iran, specifically the province

of eastern Azerbaijan. If you look up what is called the Iranian Plateau or the Iranian cultural continent or greater Iran, you'll find Iran and a bunch of her neighboring countries.

In this area, different branches of Iranian languages are spoken, and with similar cultures comes similar mythology, and with that comes shared monsters.

Originally, we believed in monsters called Deves, they are creations of Aicherman, the devil.

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