The use of &quot;bug&quot; for engineering defect (a use that predates software by around a century) shares Middle English etymology with bugbear and bugaboo, both of which relate to evil spirits&#x2F;creatures and annoyances. Khrafstar is not unreasonable as a translation.

&gt; How, one should rightly ask, could a khrafstar like the snake possibly be associated with good fortune?For a while a running joke in Persian Wikipedia community was to call software &quot;bugs&quot;, _khrafstar_s.

Go straight to the source, Iranian cinema is awesome and widely available.An easy starter is last year&#x27;s &quot;It Was Just an Accident&quot;, which was nominated for a couple of Oscars. It goes from being hilarious to offering a deep reflection on vengeance vs reparation.Kiarostami and Farhadi are also two great directors to explore.

Or just more movies about the Persians, where they’re not evil etc..

I wish there were more games based on Persian lore.Like how Al-Qadim was an Arabian-themed setting for D&amp;D.

"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)