Talk:Hıdırellez

Al Khdir and St. George?
I was wondering at the alleged connection between Al Khdir and St. George made in an earlier version of this article. I looked in the St. George article and found an explanation related to his shrine in Beit Jala and the local Arab custom of sending their mentally-disturbed to be cured there, but I did not find any direct connection between these two other than a local Arab custom of referring to George as "Al Khdir". The Al Khdir article itself offers no link between Khdir and St. George anywhere, and I am left to wonder if this alleged connection is based upon nothing more than some local custom, as opposed to a universally-accepted (or even largely-accepted) Muslim tradition. Furthermore, are the local Arabs actually referring to the Al Khdir from the Quran when they say this, or are they just giving George a moniker, the way we might refer to male-female criminal teams, for instance, as a "Bonnie and Clyde"? I'm not saying they're NOT one and the same (I don't know); I'd just like to see something in Muslim or Arab tradition directly linking Al Khdir to St. George (beyond what has been offered here) before any connection is made between them here or in other Wikipedia articles. - Ecjmartin (talk) 18:44, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

There IS a connection in the local beliefs and customs of the Balkans, where muslims and christians lived together for centuries. I will contribute to this article soon, with material from greek ethnograpic publications. For the moment I will refer only to some kind of symbolic relation: "Khdir" means "green, grass" and "Georgios" means "of agriculture". The custom of "kurban", still practiced by christian Greeks in some places, was a common custom for Greeks and Turks at least till early 20th century. --Skylax30 (talk) 14:12, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Beltane
Celtic Festivity Beltane shows number of similarities with Hidirellez. I wonder if these two festivities have common origin. Does anyone have any information on possible relationship of the two? AverageTurkishJoe (talk) 19:45, 21 November 2010 (UTC)