An Anatolian folk-tale, One day, a long time ago, a shepherd walks into a workshop of a coppersmith in a small town in Anatolia. He is carrying a bell, a side of which has been cracked. He asks the coppersmith to weld the crack. Being terribly busy with work, the coppersmith does not want to pay attention at first, and even gets angry and asks "Why are you preoccupying me with such trivial matters?" However, he welds the crack and returns it to the shepherd. Just as the shepherd getting ready to leave, the coppersmith asks him a question. "I don’t understand why you are keeping me busy with such silly little jobs like this. Suppose I ever made such bells would you ever consider buying them, I wonder?" The shepherd answers, "Ooh !.. come off it my friend ! .. Of course I will. If you ever make bells like this one, I’ll buy them in large quantities, and also I’ll give you a lamb as a gift as well. But the most important thing of all is that it must have the same sound. The sound of the bell you make must be exactly to my liking, then of course, I’ll buy it. Soon after this event, the coppersmith starts to make bells and the shepherd keeps checking them for the right sound he is looking for, Unfortunately, the more the coppersmith makes bells, the more the shepherd rejects them. This goes on and on and on. Finally the coppersmiths reaches an unbearable state, after hundreds of useless bells he has a nervous breakdown, in additon, he has also used up all this materials in vain and ends up in an huge amounts debt. He is on the verge of bankcruptcy. Some time later, the shepherd pays a visit to the coppersmith’s workshop and notices the shop owner’s son playing with a hammer and hitting a bell with it. The sound the bell was making suddenly catches his attention, and with a amazing joy, the shepherd shouts loud "Stop !, stop !, This is it, you’ve got it. This is the sound I was looking for" The coppersmith finally cheers up and joins the shepherd in celebration. From that day on, this artisanship has been continuing as a hereditary craftmenship passing down from father to son for generations. This story is told as the origin of bell making. Functional data, In Anatolia, it is widely known by shepherds, farmers and animal husbandry experts that domestic animals such as sheep and goats are generally very timid and shy creatures. They are easily alarmed and effected by prospect of danger cause by noise, wind or similiar actions or events, and very frightened. When they are frightened and alarmed, they often react by stoping grazing, which is a negative effect on them. If bells are worn by these animals, they eventually develope a familiarity to outside sounds and they get used to the sound of the bell which doesn’t frighten them, and consequently, they calmly carry on grazing and feeding themselves continuously, which also results in raising big fat, fleshy flocks or herds, whereby farmers achieve a productive yield in their businesses.