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Public narrations inhold folk cultural elements such as birth customs, marriage types, death beliefs, folk medicine and veterinary medicine that still exist within oral tradition. Practices of folk medicine and veterinary medicine, which go a long way back to the beginning of the history of humanity, are still implemented today. Especially, during times of the non-existence of modern medicine, folk medicine was one of the common practice for people. In the same way, folk veterinary medicine started to come into prominence with the domestication of animals. The purpose of our study is to establish the elements of folk medicine and veterinary medicine in folk narrations (epic–folktale) narrated by Meddah Behçet Mahir and to compare the examples obtained from texts with the motives in similar epics and folktales. Documents analysis technique will be drawn upon to this end. Behçet Mahir was the last representative of the eulogy tradition, which has a deep-rooted past, and in his narrations he undertook the duty of conveying the Turkish culture that traces back to the acceptance of Islam. Our study will argue in what way folk medicine and veterinary medicine are reflected in the folk narrations of the folk storyteller Meddah Behçet Mahir and discuss its place within the Turkish folk storytelling and epic writing, making use of examples from texts.

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