A comparison on the cultural elements of anatolian and turkish cypriot folk tales

Anatolian and Turkish Cypriot folk tales are oral narratives that are fed by similar sources and contain common content, structure, form, and function features. While the Turkish Cypriots migrated from Anatolia to the island, they brought together the cultures, social insights, beliefs, and narratives of the regions they came from and blended them with the island culture and transferred them to future generations. Depending on the island geography, the Turkish Cypriot people melted various place names, geographical shapes, and social conditions within the folk tales over the years and added many different elements from Anatolia to the fairy tales. For example, the priest type and various Greek characters take part in fairy tales as well as different elements of Christian culture are mentioned in the narrations. While evaluating the cultural elements in Anatolian and Turkish Cypriot tales, culinary culture, handicrafts, crafts, beliefs, religion, social life, architecture, games, weddings, dowry, feast-banquet, fairy-tale motifs, folk types etc. were taken into consideration as well as how these cultural elements take place in fairy tales. Many similar cultural elements have been identified between Anatolian and Turkish folk tales. Qualitative research was applied as a research method and document analysis was used to collect data.