ESKİŞEHİR’DE BİR SAĞALTMA OCAĞI: ALBASTI
A HEALING IN ESKİŞEHİR: ALBASTI

Summary/Abstract: Known to haunt women postpartum and newborn babies, "albastı" is a female spirit designed with an evil spirit. There are some beliefs and practices to be protected from the harm of this evil spirit, which is widely known in Turkish communities. Among these, there is also an application to the hearth together with the treatment and prevention methods related to folk medicine. The person who catches the dangerous creature found in barns, haystacks, ruins, desolate places, and water sources, which is feared to rip out the liver of the puerperal and her baby, releases him on the condition that he does not harm anyone of his own and against this becomes the albasti hearth. The belief in Albasti has survived to this day by being carried from the lineage with the tradition of hearth treatly. This article focuses on the Albasti hearth, which serves in the Yahnikapan neighborhood of the central district of Eskişehir. Hearth, who states that she treats her suitors with the practices she made by taking the power of twelve imams, is based on the Alevi Turkmen tribes coming from Khorasan. The data of the study is based on the field research carried out within the scope of the scientific research project between the years 2020-2022. The material obtained from the Albasti hearth through in-depth interview and observation techniques is based. In the evaluation, it has been seen that the hearth continues to serve actively as a healing hearth. Considering that many hearths are closed due to the unwillingness to be maintained by the new generation the Albasti hearths fulfill an important function in terms of the continuity of cultural memory in the urban society.

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