Özet:

 Legends are national narrations engaged in the carriage of cultural values in the universal sense. The awareness of selfdom and the world of common values that the mankind wanted to convey from past to present, have found a habitat in the world of legend narrations. What nourishes  the cultural memory, legends, mythologies protected by a nation is the everlasting life energy that keep them alive for centuries. The legends with decapitated motifs rebuilt in different time and space, now again has the aim to resurrect the values, in cultural memory such as ''national memory, awarenees of identity, individualization, etc... Subject to evaluate the legend called, ''Canbulat Pasha'', narrated in Cyprus, is an important legend that was created around the axis of an awareness of selfdom. Similar legends have been narreted in Anatolia and Balkans and have become stereotyped. We can give some legends as an example related to these legends such as ''decapitated (Sems-i Tebriz) Mausoleum'' in Nigde, ''Arab Baba Mausoleum'' in Elazig, ''Celal Baba'' in Kars, ''Sultan Saa' aaand Caferi Tayyar'' in Diyarbakir, ''Abdurrahman Gazi'' in Erzurum, ''Saldir Sheikh Horasani'' in Mugla, '' Gul(rose)  Baba'' in Hungary, etc... Besides the common structure and motifs, with this study oriented with Canbulat Pasha, we are going to consider the Turkish legends with the decapitated motifs on aspects such as decapitated, headless bodies, symbolic meanings of head, miracles of Saints, the effect of the values of the islamic faith, self-awareness, etc... 

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