Özet:

Traditional medicine originally emerged as the result of the first human seeking healing by taking advantage of nature for various diseases. Thro hundreds of years of experience and observation, information has been transmitted from generation to generation through culture. The method of people’s treatment of diseases by using products or mines obtained from plants and animals by their own special efforts, or by using practices such as magic, prayer, is considered as public medicine. In search of healing, in addition to the developments that modern medicine has achieved today, the old habits are also continued and the experience, observation and accumulation of diseases based on eternal/dead-visible, paternal/dead-visible methods are still preferred. In the process of cultural change, in 2003 the 32th UNESCO. The Convention on the Conservation of Non-Thematic Cultural Heritage, adopted at the General Conference, aims to preserve local cultural values that are rapidly disappearing along with globalization. One of the five areas created during the identification of non-subjective cultural heritage, the title "Nature and Universe-related knowledge and practices" covers practices related to traditional public medicine. In this context, the identification and protection of traditional healing practices is one of the objectives of the contract. In this context, the castings and castings made from the castings used as a supply element against the Nazara are the subject of this work. In the study, both verbal and cultural products formed around the "touch" from the data obtained as a result of conversations with the source people in the Mersin area have been identified. The Nazarets collected from the field have been regarded as the archaeological codes of social memory that has been lived, re-produced and transmitted for centuries in Turkish culture and social life.

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