Gaisha-Batman

In the Turkic-Tatar mythology, the saints, the patronesses of Muslim women, correlate with Gaisha, the wife of the Prophet Muhammad, and Fatyma, his daughter from his first wife Hadichi; in some sources they appear as a single person.

It was believed that their hands had healing properties. This belief is reflected in the magical conspiracy: "Minem kulym tygel, Gaisha-Batman kuly" ("It is not created by my hand, but by the hand of Gaisha-Batman").

In the oral folk art of many Muslim countries, Gaisha-Batman, Gaisha-Fatyma appear as propagators of Islam.

In Chuvash folklore, they are reinterpreted in the opposite image — the head of the evil spirits Ashapatman, an old woman sitting on a golden throne, with a face made of gold, with one eye, one tooth and one hair on her head.