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RELIGIOUS-MAGIC AND MEDICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE MAGNET ACCORDING TO A 18TH-CENTURY TREATISE
When and where folkloric material faces with the person is unknown. Orhan Saik Gökyay revealed this situation many researchers have personally experienced in his statement entitled "Folklore in Unexpected Sources” which he presented in 1976, with several examples. The nature of the materials may occur unexpectedly in some sources. We, by chance, saw that a treatise we have information about was a medical treatise that has important information in terms of folklore, not an anecdote text as registered in the catalog. This treatise is registered with the name "Manaqib-iSuleiman" in the Public Library of Kastamonu Province. This naming done by looking at the initial part in which the story of Prophet Solomon's getting the magnet is far from covering the context of the text. The text in question is basically a medical treatise describing a variety of properties of the magnet. Various rumors about the origin of the magnet were conveyed in the first part of the treatise which we have discussed in case of two-part. In the second part, which forms the base of our study the religious –magic and medical functions of the magnet have been exemplified. We have classified each title in their own by collecting this part under two main headings. The examples we have given by simplifying and without disrupting the tissue of the text have indicated that there have been important applications on account of folklore of medicine in this treatise, which is in the nature of a compilation of the rumors in the written and oral culture.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Medical and mystical folklore, Magnet, Prophet Solomon, Medical treatise