EFSANELERİN İŞLEVLERİNDEN BİRİ OLARAK TEDBİR
PRECAUTION AS ONE OF THE FUNCTIONS OF LEGENDS

Summary/Abstract: Legends that contain many social and cultural elements of a society are known commonly among the public. Legends which told for the purpose of taking a share of living events and transfer these to the next generations deal with many events that take place in daily life. The exemplary stories, which lived in human history turn into precautions taken by the society with the repetition of legends which are faith-based narratives among the public. Legends settled in public almost as a warning to prevent misconduct, injustice, viciousness etc. Not to do about a subject, situation and event are listed and explained with examples. Customs about social unconscious transferred to individuals of that society with these narratives. Myths that already existed widely in many cities of Turkey, in particular helps the precautions taken to be permanent by petrifaction motif. Legends told around the names of villages, places, and dwellings ensure that this geography is owned. These texts, which are transferred by focusing on people who have a voice in a society, find an important place among the oral cultural narratives as one of the precautions taken to prevent a mistake among the public or to eliminate the deficiency. In this study, the legends which is in Prof. Dr. Saim Sakaoğlu's 101 Anatolian Legends (1976) were scanned. The precautions taken for the attitudes and behaviors that should not be done in the society were determined with the examples selected from the narratives aforementioned and they were put forward as one of the functions of the legend genre.

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