“ALACA BOĞA” ADLI İRLANDA MASALINDA DOĞU-BATI İLİŞKİSİ VE BÜYÜ
EAST-WEST RELATIONSHIP AND MAGIC IN AN IRELAND TALE CALLED AS “THE SPECKLED BULL”

Summary/Abstract: Folk narratives are the most important witnesses of the need to tell and listen of human as a social entity. Having a good time, supporting social values and foundations, educating public and providing transfer of culture to the next generations are the functions of folk narratives. These functions become meaningful with the cultural elements which reveal thoughts, values and senses of society in which folk narratives have been created and sustained. Tales have witnessed the journey of all the elements from their beginning to now- the century they are being existed. In this study, the aim is to reveal the interaction of east and west by tales and magic motive. Tales reveal the culture adventure via motives. Therefore, motives carry the deep traces of beliefs, social values and senses. The most distinct motive which meets East and West on common ground in The Speckled Bull is magic. The hero who is charmed in West wins his freedom and also his initation in East by being broken the spell. The belief about existence and authenticity of magic is common. This belief is an element which complements East and West. In this context, the magic motive in The Speckled Bull functions as a bridge between East and West. In this study, the East-West relationship will be evaluated in The Speckled Bull, an Ireland tale, in the context of magic motif.

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