Turkish Mythology with a Historical Introduction (Annotated)

Discover the wonders of Turkish mythology through these 44 fairy tales.

Turkish mythology is comprised of myths and traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation by the Turkish people. Soon, you will be immersing yourself into their culture and traditions told in an almost poetic way. 

The Turkish people have a love for storytelling and are masters of it. This is the reason why they have such an interesting library of fairy tales.

About the author: Hungarian linguist, Turkologist, and folklorist Ignác Kunos was a correspondent member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ linguistics department. At the time of his death, he was considered to be one of the most distinguished experts of Turkish folk literature and Turkish dialectology.

The drawings inside are very captivating. The cover was created from one of them and brought back to life, retouched and with full color.

Here is a look inside at the different tales:

Turkish mythology has also been affected by other indigenous Asiatic and Eurasian myths, as well as by various European mythologies. For example, aspects of Finnic and Indo-European myths coexist in Tatar mythology, which is a hybrid of the two.