Analysis of Human being's Transmutation in written legends of Sistan and Baluchestan Province

Figure turning is the change in the appearance of nature or the ability of Mythological heroes and legendary creatures that sometimes is demonstrated with apparent changes such as: turning inanimate objects to animals, human to animal or vice versa, human to angel and etc. It is sometimes without apparent change. For example, the Hero achieves a numinous power or maybe goes beyond his intrinsic abilities. However, it is important that these changes or figure turnings be considered as the most important factor to wonder in myths, legends and folk stories. The purpose of this study is to examine the written native legends in Sistan and Baluchistan province from the figure turning point of view. According to the diversity of types of tangible figure turning and the Breadth of the subject, the present article is assigned to the types of human transmutation in which human has been transformed in to animal, inanimate, plant, numinous creatures, nature, and human, or gains extraordinary abilities without a change in his nature. The results shows, there is human transmutation in 23 out of 157 myths in the province. The most human figure turnings are "transformation of human to animal" and "amazing trips", "transformation of human to human" and "human to numinous creatures" from the first kind of human transmutation which are not seen in any kind of these myths. The researchers try to demonstrate the obvious reasons of different figure turnings by interpreting mentioned legends and also, to show the role and function of these figure turnings in native legends.