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Türkiye

One entry in one subarea: 1 at grade A. The points fall where the entry was collected, not where the story is set. Hover a point to see the subarea, click it to open the entry.

The entries, in brief

The folklore of Türkiye documented in this atlas: Alkarısı. Every entry is placed on the map at the point where it was collected or attested — not where the story is set — and carries its declared grade of documentation (1 at grade A), with the sources it comes from.

Alkarısı A
It attacks the loğusa, the woman in the forty days after giving birth. It tears out her liver — in the Central Asian variants the lungs — and runs towards the water: when the organ touches running water, the woman dies. It is…

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