A Study on the Attitude and Use of Ritual Poem in Sistani Dialect

This study aims to analyze the attitude and use of ritual poems in different rituals. The instrument to collect the related data was a research-made questionnaire. It consisted of 26 items on the attitude and use of Sistani poems in different rituals. To test the reliability of the questionnaire, the Cronbach alpha was administered. the population was all individuals above 20 in Zabol city and its surrounding villages. The research sample, though, was 384 individuals based on Morgan's sampling table. This was done through random sampling. To test the hypothesis, the Chi-square was employed in SPSS software. The findings indicate that the participants have a positive attitude to ritual poems, but do not use them in their rituals as before.