Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 22 (1977) (Pécs, 1978)

Néprajztudomány - Mándoki, László: 103 Turkish Riddles from Šumen (Bulgaria)

103 TURKISH RIDDLES FROM SUMEN (BULGARIA) LÁSZLÓ MÁNDOK1 Lâtife lâtif gère к. In summer 1976 I spent ten days in Bulgaria following my exploratory gathering work done before, I was collecting mainly riddles from Turks and Bulgarians and I prepared my Armenian collection as well. In this work I present material I have collected so far from the Osmanli Turkish community of about 1500 inhabitants in Sumen. I obtained information from the following persons: Baj Kadir Ahmed (68 years old) retired teacher, Ismail Redjepow = Kara Ismail (65 years old) saddler and harness-maker, Ismail Hüsmenow Mehmedow = Ismail Hüsmen (32 years old) odd-hand; the last one finished each text with the question nedir о (what is it)? Besides my tape recordings I have used up the material Safiye MURADOWA (woman secretary of the Osmanli Turkish Community in Sumen) sent me in a letter.

1 (Last picture.) 1 Thank you for the kind help given again in your letter concerning the elaboration of the material and for your kind invitation. Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve (1977) 22, p. 309—320. Pécs (Hungária), 1978. Sumen's position in Basgöz—Tietze's cart. My material is from the territory near KOWALSKI's

2 — and it makes up BASGÖZ-TIETZE's catalogue

3 fairly well. I publish my texts adjusted 2 KOWALSKI. Tadeusz: Türkische Volksraetsel aus Nordbulgarien. — Festschrift für Georg Jacob zum siebzigsten Gebuhrstag (Leipzig, 1932.): 128—145. 3

Bilmece: A Corpus of Turkish Riddles. By Ilhan BASGÖZ and Andreas TIETZE. Berkeley — Los Angeles — London, 1973. Folklore Studies 22.