One of the greatest curiosities of mankind is to know in advance what will happen in the future. Some experiences have created various beliefs that what will happen in the future can be predicted. Beliefs about learning the future continue to exist among people despite increasing knowledge, rapid technological developments and powerful civilizations. The practices of predicting the future by looking at the states of some objects in nature or the movements in some limbs of people are as old as the history of humanity. These practices have also provided the formation of some branches of science. In Turkish culture, predicting what may happen in the future depending on the movement of any organ in the human limbs has created a type called segirname or ihtilaçname. According to this folk belief, which lacks any scientific basis, no limb twitches/moves by chance. Twitching of a limb indicates an event that will occur in the future. In order to increase the credibility of the segirnames among the people, the interpretations of the movements of the limbs were mostly based on prophets and respected people. There are many examples of segirname in Turkish folk culture. While some of them are based on a single and general interpretation, some are based on the individual comments of many people. Although some of the segirnames have been studied, there are still many unexamined segirnames. In this study, a new comparative segirname copy in the National Library has been examined. As a result of the examination, it has been seen that this copy contains different interpretations from the three comparative twitch samples that have been determined before. The reason for the difference in interpretations is that segirnames lack scientific basis and are reshaped according to the beliefs of the society in which they are located. More accurate information about this species will be obtained by the evaluation of other segirname samples that have not been examined yet. As a result of this, many disciplines such as linguistics, theology, folk medicine, anatomy, sociology, psychology, alternative medicine will be contributed, especially folklore.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Creative Arts and Writing |
Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Early Pub Date | January 8, 2023 |
Publication Date | January 25, 2023 |
Acceptance Date | December 20, 2022 |
Published in Issue | Year 2023 Volume: 11 Issue: 29 |