C.O.O.L Colors of our Land -Rainbow Myth

IN TURKEY

Şehit Doğan Sevinç Secondary School -Bilge Yılmaztekin

In Turkey there are many superstitions some of which are considered as good luck, others as bad luck. We also have superstitions related to rainbow. These are;

• In Turkey it is believed that at the end of a rainbow there is a pot of gold

• If a boy passes under the rainbow he’ll become a girl, if a girl passes under the rainbow she’ll become a boy

If you want to learn more about superstitions in Turkey, you may check the following website.

http://www.allaboutturkey.com/superstition.htm

Romania

Giurgiu, Camelia Pagila

” In Eastern Europe it was believed that an angel put gold at the ends of the rainbow, but only a nude man could find it. An old Romanian folktale claimed that the end of a rainbow stood in a river, anyone creeping in on hands and knees for a drink of the rainbow-touched water would be changed instantly to the opposite sex. A similar tale claimed that anyone passing beneath a rainbow’s arch would be changed into the opposite sex.”

Source

https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/nonpwdpubs/young_naturalist/earth_sciences/rainbows/index.phtml

Greece

Marianthi Ioanna Tsekoura

Poenar Florela, C.N.P. Regina Maria Deva