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Post by Subu'atai on Sept 13, 2010 3:35:10 GMT 3
Anyone got some good ones family-friendly?
I'm at wit's end trying to find them, we need to publish more! Especially for the kids! In any case, post any cute steppe folklore for kids here =)
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Post by hjernespiser on Sept 13, 2010 6:24:04 GMT 3
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Post by Atabeg on Sept 13, 2010 13:55:08 GMT 3
There are many versions of Destâns for children but I don't know if any of them are in english. You might find a copy of The Tales of dede korkut in english....
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Post by Atabeg on Sept 13, 2010 14:01:32 GMT 3
Oh yeah there is also Keloglan(bald boy) nice for Kids my grand father mostly told me stories about him.
And there is also Nasrettin hoca or Molla Nasreddin these are a little more religious well they're more about virtue than about religion.
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Sept 14, 2010 12:57:22 GMT 3
The Dädä Qorqut (Dede Korkut) stories are good for children, I enjoyed them even when I was a little child
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Post by Subu'atai on Sept 15, 2010 7:06:07 GMT 3
Thanks all! Anymore would be much welcome =)
Just curious - are there like illustrated versions of these stories?
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Sept 16, 2010 11:33:38 GMT 3
In Turkey yes there are, published mostly around the early-1990s right after the fall of the USSR Actually those were the things that got me interested in Steppe and Central Asian history
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Post by Subu'atai on Sept 16, 2010 11:46:31 GMT 3
Any translated in english?!!! Those would be PERFECT! xD
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Sept 18, 2010 13:08:14 GMT 3
Unfortunately none as far as I know And after that Pan-Turkic atmosphere faded away following the mid-90s, those stuff became a nostalgia Guess I was a kid right in the lucky time.
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Post by Subu'atai on Sept 22, 2010 2:21:17 GMT 3
Oh well, no picture books then... sad really
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Sept 22, 2010 12:20:26 GMT 3
Yup
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Post by siberiancoldbreeze on May 20, 2012 21:15:59 GMT 3
For some scary folkloric tales we have famous Alkarısı -Red women stories were my favorites and directly from my father ,He knows lots of versions..i must translate them but he is not at home now.. can't imagine their manga versions .i hope one day we can have them illustrated.. there is one monster like being ,native to black sea called karakoncalos ..
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Post by Ardavarz on May 21, 2012 0:18:47 GMT 3
That's interesting. Those are probably the same as Bulgarian "karakonjuls" (believed to be spirits of slaughtered pigs assaulting people at the nights during the eleven so-called "impure days" after Christmas).
There are many such scary creatures in the folklor of different peoples, which sometimes display strikingly similar features. For instance I find especially interesting the Caucasian variant of the famous "snow man" (very like Himalayan "yeti" and North American "big foot") called "almostu" by the Balkars. Pictures of such hairy men are discovered even in the Scythian artifacts and probably the earliest known example is the Sumerian character Enkidu. I suppose their prototype could have been some extinct once existing species of relict hominoids.
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Post by siberiancoldbreeze on May 21, 2012 10:54:37 GMT 3
Let me find Anatolian version of them..i hope i can find ,its been long time since i read the article
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