
The modern era's greatest paradox is that while living in history's most "connected" period, we experience its deepest "disconnection". Today, streets, cafés, schools, and even the most private corners of our homes are filled with people physically together yet spiritually miles apart. We do not know those we call our closest, yet we can become friends with people we would not recognize if we passed them on the street. “If you are in my heart, even if you are in Yemen, you are beside me. But if
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Gözde Cabadak
RiThe Child-Selling Ritual is a symbolic rite performed to protect a newborn or expected child from evil spirits, the threat of death, or misfortune. The core logic of the ritual lies in concealing the child’s true parental identity from evil spirits or presenting the child as belonging to someone else, thereby deceiving the forces believed to cause death, misfortune, or possession. In Turkish folk narratives, this practice is called “child-selling,” while in Slavic beliefs, a ritual serving the s
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Duygu Şahinler