• Ahi Evren
• Ahriyan
• Al Basti
• Alaturbi
• Ancomah
• Bardi
• Cazi
• Germakoçi
• Karakoncolos
• Karakura
• Kolot
• Tavara

The man was believed to be the Muslim preacher who came Trabzon in Trabzon Empire times and extended Islam here. ... Name of people from Tonya and Beshikdüzü (Trabzon) which was given by Salpazarı Turkomans. ... Al Basti (Also Al Kardai or just Al) is a tormenting feminine night-demon in Turkish folklore (Anatolia, Turkmenistan). ... A sea festival name is celebrated in Akcaabat and Besikdüzü (West of Trebizond) on 29 June -6 July with the participation of Cephni Turkomans. ... Ancomah (Antzomakh, Antzimah) is a mythological place which was first mentioned by Hasan Umur in the 1940s, approximately fifty meters inland near Trabzon, Turkey. ... In Trebizond folklore, the Bardi (feminine jackal) is a shapechanging spirit or an rabid animal who presage a death by wailing Source (Turkish): Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük. ... Cadi, Cazi or Cady: Turkish word for witches (mostly feminine). ... A variation of Karakoncolos in Laz language (< Germa Mountain + Kochi man) He is more evil and cannibal and some variants he is marriad with a witch. ... A malevolent creature from Northeast Anatolian Pontic folklore (Turk [Greek descent], Laz, Hemsheen) a variant of boogyman merely troublesome and rather harmless, but others are truly evil. ... In Turkish (East Anatolia) folklore, a tormenting masculine night-demon, or nightmare. ... In Trebizond folklore, salt, flour and oil are collected from seven different houses, water is brought from seven different rivers, and last of all seven pieces of wood are collected from seven different hedges. ... Tavara or Davara In Trebizond folklore (A city in Northeast Anatolia) a tormenting night-demon, or nightmare. ...

Breaking vine

In Trabzon region folklore (Çarşıbaşi town) For testing whether the new bride is propitious, when she comes to the house, she is asked to break a vine from three points and these pieces are planted while they are expected to sprout. If wine sprouts, this means bride is propitious. Traditional Trabzon country house Location of Trabzon Province within Turkey Trabzon, formerly known as Trebizond or Τραπεζούντα (Trapezoúnda; see also List of traditional Greek place names) in Greek, is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey (Lat (DMS) 41° 2 60N Long (DMS) 39° 43 37E). ... Folklore is the body of verbal expressive culture, including tales, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs current among a particular population, comprising the oral tradition of that culture, subculture, or group. ... The term vine was originally a term for the plant on which grapes grew, from the word for wine (Greek oinos), for which grapes were grown. ... Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by the fermentation of grapes and grape juice. ...

Cutting a shoelace

In Pontic coast of Anatolia folklore (Giresun,Trabzon, Rize, Artvin) It is believed that there is an invisible lace between the feet of those children who cannot walk or have troubles in walking although they are in walking age. A lace is tied (mostly of cotton) between the feet of child and the lace is cut by the elder child of family or the first to get out from mosque, in Friday prayer. Therefore, it is believed that if the invisible lace has been cut and the child will walk. Asia Minor lies east of the Bosporus, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. ... Giresun is a town in north-eastern Turkey with 90,000 inhabitants (2003 estimate) on the Black Sea. ... Traditional Trabzon country house Location of Trabzon Province within Turkey Trabzon, formerly known as Trebizond or Τραπεζούντα (Trapezoúnda; see also List of traditional Greek place names) in Greek, is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey (Lat (DMS) 41° 2 60N Long (DMS) 39° 43 37E). ... Rize is a town in the north-eastern part of Turkey and the capital of Rize Province. ... Yeni Camii (the New Mosque), one of the landmarks of İstanbul A mosque is a place of worship for followers of the Islamic faith. ...

Passing under blackberry

In Turkish folklore (Trabzon region, Akçaabat town) Childless women, cows that don't get pregnant, and children wetting their beds are supposedly cured by passing under a blackberry bush known as "Avat" (West Trabzon). “Avat is believed to be a charm herb of paradise.” Traditional Trabzon country house Location of Trabzon Province within Turkey Trabzon, formerly known as Trebizond or Τραπεζούντα (Trapezoúnda; see also List of traditional Greek place names) in Greek, is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey (Lat (DMS) 41° 2 60N Long (DMS) 39° 43 37E). ... Species Rubus fruticosus- Common Blackberry and hundreds more microspecies (the subgenus also includes the dewberries) The blackberry is a widespread and well known shrub; a bramble fruit (Genus Rubus, Family Rosaceae) growing to 3 m (10 ft) and producing a soft-bodied fruit popular for use in desserts, jams and...

Showing to the moon

In Trabzon and Rize region folklore(Pontic coast of Anatolia). Desperate patients with incurable diseases are said to have been showed to the moon on a wooden shovel “If that continues I will put you on a shovel and show you to the moon”(İkizdere town. In Çarşıbaşı district of Trabzon province, weak and scrawny babies have been showed to the moon on a shovel and said: “moon! moon! Take him!, or cure him”. In this tradition, which is a sequel to the paganist beliefs before the monotheist religions, moon cures the patient or takes his/her life. Moon worship is very common among the Caucasian Abkhaz, Svans and Mingrelians ABS 18. Traditional Trabzon country house Location of Trabzon Province within Turkey Trabzon, formerly known as Trebizond or Τραπεζούντα (Trapezoúnda; see also List of traditional Greek place names) in Greek, is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey (Lat (DMS) 41° 2 60N Long (DMS) 39° 43 37E). ... Rize is a town in the north-eastern part of Turkey and the capital of Rize Province. ... Folklore is the body of verbal expressive culture, including tales, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs current among a particular population, comprising the oral tradition of that culture, subculture, or group. ... Asia Minor lies east of the Bosporus, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. ... Traditional Trabzon country house Location of Trabzon Province within Turkey Trabzon, formerly known as Trebizond or Τραπεζούντα (Trapezoúnda; see also List of traditional Greek place names) in Greek, is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey (Lat (DMS) 41° 2 60N Long (DMS) 39° 43 37E). ... Paganism (from Latin paganus) and Heathenry are blanket terms which have come to connote a broad set of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices of a natural religion, as opposed to the Abrahamic religions. ... The Entholinguistic patchwork of the modern Caucasus - CIA map The Caucasus, a region bordering Asia Minor, is located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which includes the Caucasus Mountains and surrounding lowlands. ... Abkhaz is an agglutinative Georgia (in the autonomous republic of Abkhazia) and Turkey. ... Svans — the inhabitants of Svaneti region — are ethnic Georgians (one of the local culture-groups of ethnically subdivided Georgian people), and are the indigenous population of this province. ... Samegrelo (Mingrelia) is a historic province in the western part of the republic of Georgia, formerly also known as Odishi. ...

Tying someone

In Pontic coast of Turkey's folklore (Trabzon, Rize, Giresun, Ordu, Artvin, Samsun) Folklore is the body of verbal expressive culture, including tales, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs current among a particular population, comprising the oral tradition of that culture, subculture, or group. ... Traditional Trabzon country house Location of Trabzon Province within Turkey Trabzon, formerly known as Trebizond or Τραπεζούντα (Trapezoúnda; see also List of traditional Greek place names) in Greek, is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey (Lat (DMS) 41° 2 60N Long (DMS) 39° 43 37E). ... Rize is a town in the north-eastern part of Turkey and the capital of Rize Province. ... Giresun is a town in north-eastern Turkey with 90,000 inhabitants (2003 estimate) on the Black Sea. ... Ordu is a port city in Turkey. ... Artvin is a city in north-eastern Turkey. ... Samsun is a city in northern Turkey, on the coast of the Black Sea, with a population of 396,900 as of 2004. ...

1. v. To ensure bridegroom been bewitched and impotent for not able to have sexual intercourse with bride. There are several reasons of being tied: A person who wants to impede this marriage, blows into a knot, knots it and puts it on the way of bride or uses other sorceries. However, it is also deemed a reason for being tied if the bride nails, knots or locks a door with a key before the marriage. “While going to the house of bridegroom, way is always changed and the unlooked-for ways are followed to be saved from tie sorceries that could have been buried in the way” 2. n. To tie the animals such as wolfs and bears that harms the flock and named monster, and swine that damages the crop. Generally, an amulet is prepared by a hodja and buried to the places where flock grazes or to the corner of sown field. 3. n. To increase the amount and quality of meadow before the haymaking time, water is brought to the meadows in the plateaus in thin directions from rivers by the arcs. This process is called as to connect water.

Worship of trees

In Trabzon folklore, the swinging of tree branches and leaves symbolised worship. It is believed that oak trees do not worship God because their leaves do not swing as much as those of other trees. Traditional Trabzon country house Location of Trabzon Province within Turkey Trabzon, formerly known as Trebizond or Τραπεζούντα (Trapezoúnda; see also List of traditional Greek place names) in Greek, is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey (Lat (DMS) 41° 2 60N Long (DMS) 39° 43 37E). ... Species See List of Quercus species The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus, and some related genera, notably Cyclobalanopsis and Lithocarpus. ... Worship usually refers to specific acts of religious praise, honour, or devotion, typically directed to a supernatural being such as a god or goddess. ... Michelangelos depiction of God in the painting Creation of the Sun and Moon in the Sistine Chapel) This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and derived henotheistic forms. ...

Şakir Şevket says that Akçaabat society believed in an idol and worshipped a tree called platana, and that is how the city was given this name. Although the platana (Platanus Orientalis in Latin) was a plane tree he had confused this tree with the poplar. Binomial name Platanus orientalis L. The Oriental plane (Platanus orientalis L.) is a very large, widespreading, and long-lived deciduous tree in the Platanaceae family. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... This article is about woody plants of the genus Populus. ...

The words of Lermioglu “today peasants love trees as their children.There were several events which people kill someone for a tree” and a story from 19th century show us that this love comes from very old days. A hunter from Mersin village cut a tree called kragen which was idol of Akcaabat society (Since 1940). Then the peasants called the pollice and said that the hunter cut the Evliya Turkish and Arabic Evliya “Saint”).This event can only be explained with the “paganist” beliefs comes from “Caucasia”. At first the police undersood that the hunter killed a man called Evliya (Saint) but later they saw that the “saint” was a tree so they let the hunter go.It was an example of Colchis culture that can be seen today which was mixed with Islam in Trabzon under the name of saint and common before one God religions that people used to believe in nature. Mersin is the capital city of İçel Province, in Turkey. ... Arabic (; , less formally, ) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... The Caucasus is a region in eastern Europe and western Asia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which includes the Caucasus mountains and surrounding lowlands. ... In ancient geography, Colchis (sometimes spelled also as Kolchis) (Greek: Κολχίς, kŏl´kĬs; Georgian: კოლხეთი, Kolkheti) was a nearly triangular district in Caucasus. ... Islam (Arabic: ; ( (help· info)), submission (to the will of God)) is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the worlds second-largest religion. ... Traditional Trabzon country house Location of Trabzon Province within Turkey Trabzon, formerly known as Trebizond or Τραπεζούντα (Trapezoúnda; see also List of traditional Greek place names) in Greek, is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey (Lat (DMS) 41° 2 60N Long (DMS) 39° 43 37E). ... Michelangelos depiction of God in the painting Creation of the Sun and Moon in the Sistine Chapel) This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and derived henotheistic forms. ...

It is posible to see same things in Hemsheen region of Rize “the branches are praying three days before and during bairam,so we do not cut live branche during bairam, the branches are praying”. Rize is a town in the north-eastern part of Turkey and the capital of Rize Province. ... The Islamic holiday of Eid ul-Fitr (Arabic: عيد الفطر) marks the end of Ramadan. ...

References

• Özhan Öztürk (2005). Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük. 2 Cilt. Heyamola Yayıncılık. İstanbul. ISBN 975-6121-00-9.