Abstract:

Fairy tales, that considered by some researchers as '' some kind consisting of dreams '' , in fact , are the outpouring of real life with symbols. Told in a systematic way, and together with what we have to live through and of the things we want to live through, in these tales, the desirable world is expressed in a symbolic language. In this context, it is seen that the characters, the colors, the events, the numbers, almost all of the true meanings of animate and in inanimate beings, taking part in these tales, have a symbolic meaning out of their real ones. In this article, being one of the important types of these tales, Kaloghlan will be evaluated symbolically. In various stories, representing the people in the face of power (Sultan) and gathering the Turkish people's intelligence, mind, success, determination, luck and own purity on him in the best way Kaloghlan has a '' humorist '' side who solves out problems by laughing at them. As is well known, in Turkish world, there are lots of stories told related to Kaloghlan. In the article, as all of these would exceed the size of the article examination, by introducing a restriction to the subject, '' Kaloghlan '' tales were based on review of which the majority is told in Cukurova region and compiled by us.

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