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Title:Girl Miracle of St Gabriel
Qustan189
Documentation of the Beth Qustan Dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic language, Turoyo
Contributor (consultant):Eliyo Acar
Coverage:Germany
Date:2016-08-30
Description:Eliyo explains that a father who passed away had a daughter. Since the father passed away and had no sons, the daughter was not entitled to any inheritance. The mother of the girl took her to the St Gabriel Monastery and left her on the saint's grave. The girl miraculously became a boy overninght. Eliyos says that this event is not very old and the relatives of the girl who became a boy are well known.
The Beth Qustan dialect of the Central Neo-Aramaic, Turoyo, which is the language of Tur 'Abdin, South Eastern Turkey, with an estimated 20 families remaining in the village.This project will document socio-cultural practices of the Turoyo speaking community in Tur 'Abdin, focusing on vernacular tales, particularly those that demonstrate cultural interaction between Muslims and Christians, including Muslim visitations to the shrines of Christian saints, and consultation of soothsayers by Christians.
Eliyo was born in the village of Beth Qustan in 1948 and emigrated to Germany in 1975.
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Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1045071
IPF0244
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1045071%23
Publisher:Mikael Oez
SOAS, University of London
Subject:Narrative
Turoyo language
English language
Subject (ISO639):tru
eng
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1045071
DateStamp:  2017-06-22
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Citation: Eliyo Acar (consultant). 2016-08-30. Mikael Oez.
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