A society is a group of people living in an area whose boundaries have been historically established and who are united by a common theme. Since the beginning of time, people have had to talk to other people in order to survive. Humans, socializing through communication, have produced culture since their existence. In this process, humans have produced a variety of cultural assets in cultural contexts. Oral traditions and expressions include myths, epics, legends, folk tales, and other popular narratives. All of these types carry the events of the time in which they were created into the present through mental encoding. In this context, many important elements of the environment of oral culture have survived, reproduced and preserved. The folk tale is also a very important genre in revealing the cultural codes of societies and passing on their cultural heritage to future generations. Tales can provide information about many elements of a society, such as material and spiritual values. Man begins to discover material and spiritual values along with the cultural identity acquired through the cultural environment into which he was born. The richness of cultural elements and the diversity of Anatolian folk tales also tell us: they reveal the structure of the society living in this region, customs, traditions, beliefs and value judgments. Folk tales serve as a cultural tool to convey all this to society. Today, with the development of technology, folk tales, like many of our cultural values, have faded into the background. But the tale retains its role as a cultural vehicle. The cultural carrier function continues in the tales told in Western Anatolia, which is the area of this study and which is a cultural basin. In folk tales, there are types that take on important roles by becoming socially and culturally distinct and stereotyped. One of these types is the cunning type, which is the subject of our study. In this study, in which the tales in Western Anatolia are taken as a sample, the concepts of cunning and cunning are separated from the negative type concepts that create meaning complexity; The place of the cunning type among the basic values of the society is highlighted through the “Functional Method”.At the same time, the presence of the type of cunning in the fairy tale tradition of the region of Western Anatolia is established. The reasons that reveal the cunning in the actions of the cunning type in the fairy tales of the region, the methods used to be cunning, and the functions of cunning are examined.