INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TURKISH LITERATURE CULTURE EDUCATION, cilt.9, sa.3, ss.1067-1088, 2020 (Hakemli Dergi)
The curse
are verbal reactive sentences that he desperately establish when he realizes
that he is injustice. These sentences consisting of a few words have a short,
expressive and stereotyped structure. They are said at the first moment that
the grievance is noticed, so they contain serious emotional intensity, literary
power and artistic depth. These are anonymous and literary genres, which include
the religious, social and literary accumulations of the culture to which they
belong. Studies on curse have been concentrated in areas such as its historical
process, subjects, their use among other species, shape and content features.
However, due to the current belief that curse is dangerous content and that it
can return to its owner, it is sentences that are not considered appropriate by
the society. It is not possible to hear these sentences, which are produced
when emotional autocontrol is lost, under normal conditions. Considered from
this point of view, the curse can give information about the great fears and
Islamic perceptions of the human. Also, because the curse are anonymous
products of social memory, these sentences can reach fears, religious beliefs,
literary conception and styles, and the dimensions of the imaginary world in
the common consciousness of the nation. This topic is discussed in the article.
The curse was first introduced in terms of the features of the literature, and
then the curse of death, grave and hereafter in Turkish folklore was examined
in terms of its envisions. From this point of view, implications have been made
on the world of thought of people who have voiced them. According to the
results obtained as a result of the study, wishes expressed in the curse also
reveal his own theological fears. Because the victim expresses the worst of the
things that can happen on her own in her curse, and wants the things she fears
to happen to the addressee. Thus, he becomes soothed, dreaming that he has
punished him enough. The study was prepared by the method of determining
Islamic and cultural references of curse. As a result, it was determined that
Turks subconsciously created very tragic scenes related to each of the
pre-death, death sequence, post-death, graves and hereafter stages.