Özet:

Shoes has been a part of human life since the earliest periods of human history; bark, leaves, etc. ıt is one of the products that are made of materials and modernized over time. Shoes are one of the important clothing materials of human life and that’s not a gear only meeting a person’s need of protecting his/her feet. They are a product of a tradition with their manufacturing, shapes and colors, as well as the beliefs and practices that have developed around them. Shoe making and yemeni making which have begun to lose their importance in the face of today’s modern sense of shoe making are one of the unique vocations that can be evaluated within vocational folklore. In the Anatolian Turkish folklore, shoes have a wide area of usage. In engagement and wedding ceremonies, the groom’s family gives the bride shoes besides other presents. In births, newborns are presented with snoozies and baby shoes. In festivals, one of the clothes bought for children is shoes. The Turkish folk literature gives place to shoes and other concepts related to shoes in genres like fairy tales, poems, folk songs and riddles. Shoes are often used in transition periods, beliefs related to evil eye and folk medicine and in rituals. Shoes are used in the treatment of a variety of illnesses, especially in line with spell-related methods. Positive and negative meanings are attributed to shoes with the way they are taken off, their direction and the way they are put on the right or the wrong foot. The present study will primarily touch upon the place of shoes in the Turkish folklore. The study will discuss the usage of shoes in the Turkish folk literature products, their place in festival traditions and symbolic features of shoe colors. The study will also discuss the beliefs and rituals that have developed around shoes in birth, marriage and death customs, ways of using shoes in beliefs related to evil eye and usage areas of shoes in folk medicine practices. The practices and beliefs that developed around shoes in Anatolia will be determined, and the reasons for these practices and beliefs will be evaluated within the framework of the functions of folk culture products.

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