Yoruk folk tales of Yunt mountain: A textual and contextual study

In this study, the folktales that we compiled from the Yörüks living in and around Yunt Mountain were examined in terms of both text and context. In the 14-month-long fiel study, 37 neighborhoods (villages) in and around Yunt Mountain in İzmir, Menemen, Aliaga, Bergama and Kınık and in Manisa, Yunus Emre, Saruhanlı, Akhisar, Kırkağaç and Soma were visited. from 57 interviewees, folktales and information on this subject are collected. There are 53 folktale texts in this study. In the "Introduction" section; after giving information about Oguz, Türkmen, Yörük terms and Yörüks living around Yunt Mountain, the geographical and social structure of Yunt are discussed, and the review of the literature, purpose and method are given. In the first chapter; the folktale definitions, classifications, and characteristics of this genre are given. Then patterns, subjects, characters and types of these narratives were determined and the motifs were classified and evaluated according to the classification made by Stith Thompson. The examinations of the formals are also discussed in this section. The second part of the work is on story tellers, listeners, performans and fonksion. In the third chapter; the context that are space, plants, objects, culinary culture and valuable metals and objects are discussed. The study has been completed with 53 texts, bibliography, the interviewees list.