Özet:

This study discussed beliefs and practices related to birth, which is one of the transition rituals in Kayseri and the surrounding Avşar villages. The research area of Kayseri Ili Pınarbaşı district is limited to its central neighborhoods and villages. For this reason, the other settlements are kept outside the investigation. But the views of the Hunters who live in the Kayseri center were also appealed. The study discussed beliefs and practices related to childbirth, and studied beliefs and practices related to pre-born and childbirth. Therefore, pre-born beliefs and practices consist of abortion removal – pregnancy, prevention from pregnancy, practices for the healthy birth of the child, overdose, practices related to the determination of the child’s gender, pregnancy preparation and birth. Applications during childbirth are applications related to the child’s stomach and his wife. Also, considering the beliefs and practices made after childbirth, it has been treated as laxation, alcaria or albastic disease, thirty-floor, crushing, naming, first tooth removal and first hair cutting. With regard to beliefs and practices, pre-born practices are more related to the mother, while post-born practices are seen as related to both the mother and the child. The research aims to reveal that Turkish culture, wherever it is in the world, shows unity and integrity, and to bring to literature the beliefs and practices that face forgotten. One of the ways to ensure the continuation of Turkish culture from the past to the present is to make public beliefs and practices written.