TURKISH HANDICRAFT MOTIFS FOR EVIL EYE AND THE BELIEFS IN ALEVISM ABOUT THE EVIL EYE

Kayabasi N., Yanar A.

TURK KULTURU VE HACI BEKTAS VELI-ARASTIRMA DERGISI, sa.65, ss.169-184, 2013 (AHCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Basım Tarihi: 2013
  • Dergi Adı: TURK KULTURU VE HACI BEKTAS VELI-ARASTIRMA DERGISI
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.169-184
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Evil eye, handicraft, motif, pattern, evil eye in Alevism
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In Turkish culture, handicrafts are treated as one of the most important cultural elements. They make handicraft to fill their need, enhance them in parallel with improvement in technology, sell them for additional income, produced them to assess surroundings raw material and free labour and to spend their spare. time. Patterns and motifs used in these patterns show emotion and thought of Anatolian people and add artistic and aesthetic value to handicrafts. Especially motifs which are used for conservation are examined in an important category. Humans use motifs which resemble eye to protect themselves from negative energy that believed to radiate from eyes. There are various beliefs in Alevism about the evil eye in which some similarities are found with the Anatolian beliefs. In this research, handicrafts which are produced for use or as accessory such as carpet, rug, some weavings, wood works, metal works (copper, silver etc.), leather, soil works (ceramics etc.) are classified and explained according to their raw materials and motifs on these items which are used for evil eye for example, amulet and evil eye, eye, burdock, hand, finger and comb, cross and hook.