Spooky Guidebook

SPOOKY GUIDEBOOK TURKEY

The Seven Sleepers (aṣḥāb al kahf, "companions of the cave") of Tarsus in MERSİN are legendary people in a story of a group of youths who hid inside a cave outside the city of Ephesus around 250 AD, to escape a persecution. The king forced all his kingdom to worship idols and whoever did not would be killed. These men escaped as their faith in God (their belief varies by regional origin) was strong and refused to worship idols. The story is one of the many examples of the legend about a man who falls asleep and years after wakes up to find the World changed .https://twinspace.etwinning.net/files/collabspace/6/36/836/14836/images/bbe10f6a.png

According to the legend of Kızkalesi, a fortune teller informs the king that his beautiful daughter will be poisoned by a snake. He adds that even the king is unable to change the fate. Shocked by fortune teller's words, the king tries to change the fate by building a castle in an island where no snakes live. He sends his daughter to live in the castle. But a snake hides in a grape basket sent from the main land and poisons the princess. This legend is not unique to Kızkalesi and some other localities in Turkey share the same story.

Kanlıdivane means "bloody crazy". This may refer to the red color of the surrounding soil. The name may also refer to a dreadful legend according to which the criminals had been executed by throwing into the sinkhole during Roman times. Kanlıdivane was a part of the Olba kingdom in the ancient age. In the northern necropolis, there is a mausoleum, which was built by the Queen Aba for her husband and sons. On the inscription of the tower at south-west it reads;
"Built by Teukros, the son of priest king Tarkyaris of Olba for Zeus."

The cave which inside of it is lighted up is called as Cave of Asthma -Wishing due to believing that the cave is good for people with asthma and due to making wish inside.