The Practises and Beliefs about Forty-Removal and Forties Concept in Diyarbakir

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2013

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Selcuk Univ, Inst Turkish Studies

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Özet

In this paper, about the forties concept and the beliefs and traditional practices forty removal in Diyarbakir will be evaluated. Our study takes its form around the beliefs and practices particularly in central Diyarbakir, Ergani, Cermik and Cungus districts. As a result of our research and observations in relation to the concept of forties exists such expressions as forties, nevse (a mother newly gave birth), postpartum period, forty removal, pouring forty, forty-contamination, flooding-forty, forty-stay, but it has been uncovered that it's mentioned Al Karisi mostly without giving any definite name. Forty days after birth in the region, forty removal is performed. In this practice, nine forty and semi forty removals are carried out solely in Cungus, while the ritual waiting for the seventh night of postpartum period is performed in central Diyarbakir and Ergani. In today's society of Diyarbakir, some traditions and beliefs indicated below continue to exist, whereas others have lost their validity.

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Birth, forties concept, forty-removal, al karisi (puerperal fever), Diyarbakir

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Turkiyat Arastirmalari Dergisi-Journal of Studies in Turkology

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33

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