The water and fire in Anatolian fairy tales

The human who has queried its mystery of all along and aimed to clear up this mystery, has accessed getting quiddity in time and attained the aim understading the inners. The quiddity that the people have wanted to come at the knowledge has hidden into the water and fire. Representing the quiddity and supplying to come at quiddity of these elements, have revealed the mystery of the human's existence. The water and fire, with this aspect, have been both as means and as ends at the human's materially and spiritually journey. The water and fire which people have obtained means-ends, forms a basis of our work with the real and symbolic aspect. In addition, joining in with different aspects, the narrative forms of folk literature of these elements, emerge from as reflection of the collective unconscious. In our work, the real and symbolic aspect of the water and fire on fairy tales is researched with the miscellaneous perspective. Hence the fairy tales which are the outputs of the shared memory of the folk are encumbered with symbolic meanings and wait for the resolving. Our aim is to deduce the unknows in these fairy tales and to explain the meaning the cultural codes. In this respect, both the water and fire elements which have been in fairy tales that are very rich and profound knowledge of the human nature wanted to be solved by the same perspective. Key Words: Water, fire, fairy tale, symbol, analysis