@article{article_267616, title={The Shaman Phenomenon Reflected in the Folktales of the Turkish World}, journal={Bilig}, pages={219–238}, year={2015}, author={Türkan, Kadriye}, keywords={Turkish folktales, Shamanism, Shaman, Kam, mother animal, transformation}, abstract={Even if the religion or belief affecting almost every field of the social and literary life of a certain community is replaced officially with another religion or belief, it continues to live informally in art, literature and folklore for many years or centuries in proportion with its power. In this respect, the relationship between Shamanism surviving in various regions of the world by starting from Siberia and Central Asia and the folk tale, an oral prose narrative, dates back to the times when the Shaman became the performer of folktale-type narratives during religious rites. This inevitably enabled the Shaman to be involved in folktales directly or indirectly. Many elements related to Shamanism, such as the perception belonging to the universe of shamanism, being a Shaman, female shamans, a shaman’s duties, resurrection, transformation, kamlama (rituals), healing, fortune-telling, etc. have survived to the present day by having been transferred into various types of folk literature and especially the folktale. This article will focus on how and to what degree the Shaman and Turkish Shamanism are reflected in the folktales of the Turkish world with examples selected from the folktales of the Altai, Azerbaijan, Baraba, Bashkir, Khakas, Kazakh, Kazan-Tatar, Kirghiz, Kırım-Tatar, Nogai, Uzbek, Shor, Saha (Yakutia), Tyva.}, number={74}, publisher={Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University}