AN ANONYMOUS CUMCUME STORY RE-WRITTEN IN THE SHAPE OF PROSE

Dasitan-i Cumcume Sultan written by Husam Katib in the 14th century is a little poem in religious-didactic nature quoted from Feriduddin Attar's work. The subject in the story is that Jesus encountered with a skull and resurrected it. Although the chapters in which the affairs the skull experienced in hell were discussed in a fantastic level, the text earned a didactic feature by giving news from the conditions in the hell to people. The mesnevi samples of the story found in journals and conks in various libraries were processed by different researchers. The only sample of prose that can be detected in Turkish literature is the text entitled Haza Kitab-i Cumcume-i Mubarek which we examined in our study. In our study, this text was introduced by being transferred to the new characters, the motif sequence of the story were compared with copies of mesnevi, the motifs of skull and the resurrection from bones showing characteristic features were mentioned broadly, the examples of these motifs that can be detected in Turkish folk narratives were shown.