Folk narratives contain the cultural values of the society they belong to. There are complex cultural elements in these narratives, which have been transmitted from generation to generation in the historical process. Conceptions about the “bird”, the process from mythical narratives to fairy tales are quite common. One of these birds is the Phoenix, which appears with different naming and functions in different cultures. Phoenix which is accepted as an extraordinary feature, has been the subject of many studies. The place of the Phoenix in the oral culture products has been evaluated in the studies carried out so far. The text available in the article must be one of the oldest records of the Phoenix. The text named “Phoenix Folk Tale” which is discussed in the study is registered in the Seyfettin ÖZEGE section of the Central Library of Atatürk University, with the fixture number 0137114 and the place number 30054/SÖ. The work in question was published by “İtimad Library”. In the article, the tales that were determined after the literature review within the scope of the studies on the Phoenix were examined. In this study, after the text was latinized, a comparative study was made on the tales and the text since the Phoenix is mostly encountered in the tales among the oral culture products. We can say that this text which we think is the first copy of the Phoenix contains some differences in the transition from oral culture to written culture, as well as contains more similar elements compared to oral culture products.

Phoenix, Simurg, fairytale, mythic bird.