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Duzhyairya.^[1] He keeps her in bonds as a thousand men would keep one man, and if Tishtrya were not to keep her in check she would extinguish the life of the entire material world.^[2] Mithra withstands the Pairikas.^[3]

The recital of the Ahuna Vairya and Airyaman Ishya prayers routs the fairies.^[4] Zarathushtra asks Ahura Mazda to declare the divine name of his by the utterance of which he may smite the demons and fairies.^[5] Ahura Mazda thereupon declares that the recital of his holy names is most efficacious for routing the evil ones.^[6] Haurvatat, Haoma, Ardvi Sura, Tishtrya, Mithra, Vayu, the Fravashis, sun, waters, and trees are invoked to give power to withstand the seductive attacks of the Pairikas.^[7] Haoshyangha and Takhma Urupi overpowered and ruled over them.^[8]

The Yatus, or sorcerers, usually associate with this class of evil beings.^[9] The faithful declare in the Confession of the Faith that they abjure the sorcerers and those addicted to the sorcerers.^[10] Ahura Mazda's names, and the most efficacious prayers Ahuna Vairya, Ashem Vohu, Yenghe Hatam, and Airyaman Ishya rout the sorcerers.^[11] The recital of the hymn to Sraosha frightens and forces them to flee.^[12] The prayers and sacrifices unto the fire,^[13] the sun,^[14] Vayu,^[15] Tishtrya,^[16] Haoma,^[17] enable the faithful to disable the sorcerers. The Fravashi of King Haosrava is invoked to rout them.^[18] King Takhma Urupi subdued them.^[19] They failed in their attempts to compass the death of Zarathushtra.^[20] The West has derived the term magic from Magi, the priestly class of the ancient