Deer in Anatolian-Turkish folklore

WOS: 000255860700017Primitive mankind accepted the living and unliving creatures around him as drinking, breathing and living creatures like himself and didn't separate himself from these creatures so that sometimes had relative relations with the animals. When these relations gained a profitable dimension, beliefs and legends occurred. The deer is one of the chief animals about which Turks formed beliefs and legends. In that case, Turks didn't also cut their relation with deer in every different period they lived; they adapted deer to their new conditions. In this article, deer which appears as derivation element hunting animal, guide, is going to be evaluated with the help of examples