ANADOLU EFSANELERİNDE KADIN VE ÇOCUKLARIN KUŞA DÖNÜŞMESİ MOTİFİ
MOTIF OF TRANSFORM WOMEN AND CHILDREN INTO BIRDS IN ANATOLIAN LEGENDS

Summary/Abstract: Myth is a species that takes place in many societies and predominates the element of faith. People have created various legends in trying to understand nature and some events and they believed in these legends. In the legends; fairy tale, saga, folk story etc. According to the species, the element of faith is dominant and a species that satisfies the society in terms of belief. Legends that contain the elements of belief in societies, Legends, which contain the elements of belief in societies, have changed and transformed society. In order to better analyze the process of change and transformation of beliefs, legends need to be carefully studied. Legends have a very wide subject area. The heroes of legends can be sacred beings, extraordinary beings, humans, animals, and all living and inanimate beings. In the legends of the Turkish world, there are many live that have been the subject of legend. In particular, the motif of transformation into animals is a very common motif. Within these motifs, turning into a bird constitutes a special place. The motif of turning into a bird has a variety of symbolic meanings. Some of these transformations bear traces of the mythic period. One of them is the motif of woman turning into a bird. There are many legends about the transformation of women and children into birds in Anatolia. The aim of the study is to find out why women and children turn into birds and to examine the origins of the bird transformation. The universe of this study; It consists of doctoral and master's theses written about Anatolian Legends at the National Thesis Center. And it consists of books published on this subject. The scanned legend texts were found to be similar. For this reason, the texts selected for the sample of the study were selected from published books which are capable of general representation.

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