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%T ANADOLU F£¿ELD TALES OF CH£¿LDLESSNESS AND SNAKE
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%D 2019
%X Having children throughout history has been perceived as one of the main tasks for married couples to realize themselves in the societies they belong to. The child, who ensured the continuity of the genertaion as well as the acceptance of the parents by the society, was considered the basis of being a family. For this reason, couples who cannot have children can be excluded by the society when they are seen as incomplete and imperfect. £¿ndividuals who cannot have children can seek ways to have children in order to ensure the continuity of their generation and to be accepted in the community and around the family. Childlessness is one of the main topics of the fairy tales that offer cross sections of society¡¯s value judgments and life views. Couples who cannot have children in fairy tales seek various solutions. For this reason, they take shelter from God, the supreme authority and wait for him. They say that they are willing to do anything to have children and that they are willing to do anything in their prayers. They ask them to give them a son, even if they are ¡°snakes¡±. The main reason for wishing to have a son as a remedy for children without a child is the connection between snake and fertility throughout history. The snake is seen as the moon with a heavenly sign and as the owner of the mystery of birth and death
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%U http://dergipark.org.tr/esbd/issue/43007/467123