There is a being who has lived among Persian-speaking people for centuries. She appears in stories, in birthing rooms, in people’s fears, in protective prayers, and, over the last few years, on online platforms. I want to take her seriously—not as a projection of the human mind, but as an agent who acts and is acted upon, a participant in worlds in flux. By tracing the networks of human and nonhuman relations that keep her alive, my goal is to let her unsettle my assumptions about the real and the imaginary, as well as disciplinary boundaries, and to see what becomes visible when we refuse to reduce folk figures to symbols or pathologies and instead follow their lives across centuries.