Erzurum,
town.
bration,
S-7
Story
1970 Tape 19)
1510
Ishak Kemali
-~rarrator :
-I,oca tion :
Date:
Rescue
Therle
was once
two women went to this
his
wife
Ftewarded
wife.
One day
and asked fOF permission
celebration
approved
of
of
19170
\.;rho had a be~utiful
~
to a wedding
The ~
1
a ~
capital
Province
Erzurum
this:
that
~as being
and gav~ his
to take
held
wife
in their
permission
to go.
Those two women who took
were not
good women.
On their
,they persuaded
side the road.
and left
her there.
1tlife
began
to
cry.
Afte:r
a short
locked
the door,
ce s to
thiS! woman,
ox.
this
time
a very
thel barn,
party
they
ugly
food for
cele-
along-
locked
the
by this,
the
map carne to the barn,
"pon't
a peasant!
his
come any closer
my body!"
came along
with
his
ox ~ometime earlier,
t
ox was very hungry.
un-
When he made advan-
Keep your h~nds off
on,
a barn
and ~rightened
the buildipg.
woman
was going
the
~o enter
she began to shout,
He had run out of
by this
wife
Confused
and entered
~o the wedding
way home! from the wedding
the ~'s
while
I am a chaste
While
wife
Once she was inside
door
to me!
his
H
said
and
to himself,
"I
lIn pre-Republican
Turkey a ~
wa an aristocrat,
usually
a landholder
and often wealt:hy.
~s
were sometimes appointed
to administrative
posts througtlout
the Ottoman Empire.
There
are no longer ~s
of this type!, but th r word
~
is
sometimes
placed
after
a
man's
first
name!
as
a
deferential
term
or
a
honorific.
mild
said,
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15].0
have
neVE!r stolen
anything
to have t:o steal
shall
see if
there
is,
up 1:0 this
some food
there
is
I shall
for
my ox.
some foo,!
take
t~mel
for
but
~t is
now I am going
very hungry.
himl in this
some anci then
la~er
barn,
return
I
and if
it
to the
barn."
Beca,use
up near
one of
of
But
was lockE!d,
and entered
the eaves.
Looking
and decided
then
he also
the barn.
saw the
not
woman!"
shouted
Hearing
When the peasant
him,
"Sister,
"I
live
have
me permission
"No,
~he barn,
th~t
grain
man aboutl,'tiO
"If
I
very loudly,
this
loud
that
he unlocked
!,Don't
that
an evil
above,
near
ox.
woman in
you dare
the door
you sated
his
the
like
command I from
"Brother,
for
rescue
reel
down and tent
he saw a pile
attack
dol not
I shall
climbed
and said,
the
woman
person
rape
ugly
and fled.
the woman,
my life!"
where do you live?"
in Gavurba~i
The peasant
"I
ugly
to himself,
man was so frightened
clasped
some of
the ox climbed
ip the open space beneath
down inside
be a good Moslem.
He then
the owner of
the barn
to steal
He said
myself."
that
door
the roof
oats
I shall
the
took
brought
district."
the wife
you
to
of
your
the ~
to her
house Isafely.
home and then
Now please
give
to leave."
you must wait
here un.til
my h~sband returns.
I want
go.
"Broth+r,
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you to tell
him what has happenled,
I want my husband to hear
side."
"No,
When the
come right
the good carpet.
peasant
in
the
began
even
if
and ~hen after
to
you may
a(~co~nt from you.
feel
Come in-
<;arJ.~s, 2 she said,
take9ffhis
}I'our' carJ.ks
Make yourself
that
~re
muddy and
co~fortable
sit
down on
and at home
here."
When the ~
at the door
nice
to him,
"Wife,
"Let
about
returned
and said,
for
he is
you do not
me introduce
this
the peasant,
while,
we have I a guest
his
wife
here.
met him
Please
be
my brother.
have any brother~."
you to
him now,
the house,
~nd I shall
where I the ~
but when he saw the man's
he became annoyed.
good carpet
while
But before
rupted
"Husband,
a short
tell
you more
later."
They went on into
clothes,
after
by saying
wearing
the ~
said,
~UddY c;arlks
"Hello!"
and dusty
"What do y~u mean by sitting
on my
muddy carlks?T
could
say anyth~ng
to the peasant,
more,
his
why don't
wife
inter-
you tell
my
husband what happened?"
2until
the middle of the twentieth
century,
many rural
people wore carlks,
a type of hide sand 1 with pointy,
turnedup toes.
These were usually
made of ca el skin or donkey skin.
Since the middle of the century the hid
carlk has been replaced
by an equally
inexpensive
rubber shoe m de from recycled
rubber
or from discarded
automobile tires.
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The peasant
before
sa:Ld,
I came along.,
returning
home,
"Sister,""1
I shall
do not
tell
my ox g'rew very
know wha't happened
him what
hungry,
I know.
but
I had; nothing
.for
it~"';:;;:a: entere,d
"
it
"apd no "money' to:;'bu~i' any food
left
"'
",!
tor,feed
As I was
a
". .i
i
barn
'where 'I s?:w,a pile
of
,
amount ,of oats .for IIIlY ox.
ing
this
woman with
the
oa1t.s and
Then I
intention
When I shoutE~d loudly
brought
your
wife
hE~re,
wanted me to tell
but
I intended
saw a very
qf
at that
"to steal
a small
,
ugly. man approach"
raping
her.
She was help-
man, he ran away.
sh.e would
not
let
Then I
me go because
she
you what had. happened."
"Husband, that
was why I called
him 'brother,'"
said
the
woman
"Wife,
he is
the
peasant
Giving
said to him,
and I shall
The
It.
/
less.
~
"You
give
continued
now my brother
~)ome good
aJ':e to
you or
as well
clothes
as your
and a sum ofl money,
come here every
year
buy fo1: you whatever
1:0 do this
for
brother."
the rest
at
this
same time,
you may need
of his
life.
he