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Motif

Name_eng:

The dragon-slayer

Description:

A reptile monster demands humans (usually virgins) as a sacrifice or abducts a girl or closes sources of water. Hero kills him. Monster’s victims do not play an active part in the plot

Name_rus:

Победитель дракона

Description_rus:

Чудовище с чертами рептилии требует человеческих жертв (пожирает людей; похищает девушку; закрывает источники вод). Герой его убивает. Жертвы чудовища не играют в действии активной роли

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Motif group:

10 Adventures

Motif analysis result:

1. Only those Old World motifs that are not found in America besides among the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans.

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

158

ATU ID:

300

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
1.2.2.1	Shone (Shona, =Mashona, =Karanga), Makoni (Shoni dialect), Remba (=Hungwe, Wahungwe); Zezuru, Rozwi, Ndau (Vandau)
1.2.5.7	Kikuyu, Chuka, Embu, Emberre, Mwimbe
1.2.6.5	Aka, Baka (Badjue) and other Western (Bantu speaking) Pygmies
1.3.4.2	Northern Gur (Oti-Volta): Mamprussi, Dagomba, Dagari (Dagara; incl Lodaga), Bassari, Mosi, Nankanse, Konkomba, Moba; Ditammari, Nyende, Bulsa (pl Builsa, Bulo)
1.3.4.6	Songhai
1.3.5.1	Fula (=Fulbe, Fulani, Pular)
1.3.5.11	Mandingo (Manden, incl San, Samo), Kagoro, Bambara (Bamana), Malinke, Kassonke, Diula
1.3.5.2	Mandjak, Mankanya, Pepel, Balant, Felupe, Diola (Jola)
1.4.1.1	Nubians
1.4.1.2	Arabs of Sudan
1.4.3.7	Iraku (Irakw)
1.4.5.3	Zaghawa
10.2.2.3	Sichuan Chinese
10.2.2.4	Fujian (Fukian) Chinese
10.2.2.5	Jiangsu and Zhejang Chinese
10.2.2.6	Henan and Hubei Chinese
10.2.3.4	Miao (Hmong) and Yao of Southern China
10.2.3.5	Meo (Hmong) of Thailand, Laos and Northern Vietnam
10.3.2.4	Japan AD 700-1700
12.1.2.7	Beaver
3.1.2.1	Arabs of Egypt
3.1.3.2	Kabylia and other Berber of Northern and Central Algeria: Beni Snous, Beni Menacer (incl Zuav), Shaui, etc.)
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs
3.2.1.4	Somali
3.3.1.1	Spain
3.3.1.2	Portuguese
3.3.1.3	Catalan
3.3.1.4	Aragon
3.3.1.5	Basques
3.3.2.1	Italians: Northwest (Mentona, Ticino, Valle-d’Aosta, Piemont, Liguria, Lombardia, Emilia–Romagna)
3.3.2.2	Sicily
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.4	Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
3.3.2.5	Maltese
3.3.2.6	Italians: Central (Toscana, Umbria, Marche, San-Marino, Lazio)
3.3.2.7	Italians: Southern (Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria)
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.1	Bretagne
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.3.3.3	Wallons, Picardie
3.3.3.5	Occitanie (southern France): Limousin, Auvergne, Provence, Aquitaine, Albret, Gers, Aveyron (Rouerge), Armagnac, Landes, Gascogne, Vivarés, Roussillon, Pyrénées, Bearne, Guyenne, Bigorre, Ain, Hautes Alpes, Ariège, Vienne, Aude, French part of Swiss
3.3.4.1	Ireland
3.3.4.3	Scotland
3.3.4.4	England
3.3.5.1	Dutch, Flemish
3.3.5.2	Frisians
3.3.5.3	Germans: Northwest (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl. East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen
3.3.5.4	Germans: Southeast: Bawaria (incl. Ober Pfaltz), Franken, Bohemia (Sudeten), Austria
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.6	Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland
3.3.5.7	Eastern Prussia
3.4.1.1	Ancient Greece
3.4.1.2	Ancient Italy: Latins, Etruscans, Magna Graecia
3.5.1.1	Greeks (modern)
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.1.5	Byzantine literature
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.3	Bosnia Muslims
3.5.2.4	Croatians; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians)
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
3.5.4.1	Gagauz
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.2	Kashubians, Poles of Polish Pomorie
4.1.1.3	Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs)
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.5	Byelarusians
4.1.3.1	Russians: Central part of Russian ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500: Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, eastern part of Smolensk provinces (most of Smolensk province is Belorussian ethnic territory)
4.1.3.2	Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast
4.1.3.3	Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province)
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
4.1.3.5	Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province)
4.1.3.6	Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces)
4.1.3.7	Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora
4.1.3.8	Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, southern part of Arkhangelsk province (Shenkur, Kargopol, Konosha districts)
4.1.4.1	Early Russian written sources
4.2.1.1	Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia)
4.2.1.2	Norwegians
4.2.1.3	Danes
4.2.1.4	Swedes
4.2.3.1	Finns
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.3.3	Vepsians
4.2.4.1	Votians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
4.2.4.4	Livonians
4.2.4.5	Lutsi (Ludza)
4.2.5.1	Latvians
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.1.1	Komi (Zyrians and Permyaks)
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.2	Mordvins
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
4.3.3.1	Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars
4.3.3.2	Bashkirs
5.1.2.1	Crimea Tatars, Karaims
5.1.2.2	Urums, Rumei
5.1.3.1	Abkhaz
5.1.3.2	Abaza (Abazins)
5.1.3.3	Cherkassians, Adyghe, Kabardin
5.1.4.1	Karachays, Balkar
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.1.5.1	Stavropol Turkmen (recent migrants from Mangyshlak Peninsular)
5.1.5.2	Nogai
5.1.6.1	Ingush
5.1.7.1	Avar, Andi, Karata, Akhvakh
5.1.7.5	Lezgians, Archin, Kürin; Khinalug
5.1.7.7	Tabasaran, Aghul
5.1.7.8	Udin
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
5.2.2.1	Armenians
5.2.2.2	Azeris (Azerbaijanis)
5.2.2.3	Anatolia Turks
5.2.2.5	Kurds
5.2.2.6	Zaza (western Kurds)
5.3.2.2	Arabs of Levant (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan); Bedouins of Sinai
5.3.2.3	Arabs of Iraq
5.3.2.6	Arabs of Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Emirates, Oman,
5.3.3.1	Yemen
5.3.3.2	Mehri; Harsusi, Jibbali (Shahri, Shauri), Hobyot
5.4.2.1	Persians
5.4.2.10	Turkmen
5.4.2.11	Luri, Bakhtiari
5.4.2.3	Tajik
5.4.2.4	Highland Tajik
5.4.2.5	Baluch
5.4.2.6	Pashto
5.4.2.7	Bukhara Arabs
5.4.2.8	Uzbek
5.4.2.9	Khwarezm Uzbek; Turkic written tradition from Kök Orda
5.4.3.1	Yagnobi
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi
5.4.3.3	Yazgulami
5.4.3.5	Wakhi, Ishkashimi (including Sanglich), Munji
5.4.4.1	Kafir, or Nuristani: Prasun; Kati (incl. Paruni), Ashkun (Ashunu), Waigali
5.4.4.3	Burusho (Hunza)
5.5.1.1	Kazakh
5.5.1.2	Kara Kalpak
5.5.1.3	Kirghiz
5.5.2.1	Uyghur
5.5.2.3	Dungan of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
5.6.1.1	Indian literary tradition (Vedic, Brahman, Purana, Indian Buddhism, Hinduism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchtantra, Jatakas); iconography of Hindu temples
5.6.2.14	Bengali, Maithili
6.1.2.3	Gondi (mostly Northern Gondi)
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.1.1	Central Tibetans (Yu Tsang, incl. Sikkim Tibetans, Tichurong of NW Nepal)
6.2.1.2	NE Tibetans (Amdo)
6.2.3.6	Kuki, Chiru, Falam (Hallam), Chin (Meitei =Manipuri, Khami, =Kumi), Lakher, Mizo (Lushei), Anal, Pawi (Lai), Purum, Koireng, Milhiem, Kolhen, Mru
6.4.8.4	Timor: Amarasi, Tetum, Meto, Atoni (incl Mollo), Kédang (Lomblen island), Leti Islands (Leti, Moa, Lakor)
9.1.5.4	Daur (Daghur)
9.3.2.3	Baikal RegionTungus/Evenki