The Animal Groom Tales in the Culture of Legends of the Iranian People

The animal groom a theme of folk tales. In these stories, the protagonist (girl) goes through a series of events in the struggle to bond or escape from marriage with a creature called the animal groom. This study employs a method of content analysis and analytical-descriptive approach. While comparing the stories of the groomchr('39')s animal in terms of structure, it explains the frequency of different types of animal grooms, the structural pattern of this type of stories and the analysis of some data. The findings of this study show that in a total of 89 stories of animal groom, the demon, with 40 cases, has the highest frequency among different types of animal grooms, and these stories follow the same pattern from a total of 18 groups of similar stories.