l19b3

Motif

Name_eng:

The twelve-headed monster

Description:

A monster with twelve heads is mentioned either alone or at the end of the row of creatures with ever bigger number of heads

Name_rus:

Двенадцатиглавое чудовище

Description_rus:

Упоминается существо с 12 головами – единично, либо замыкая ряд существ с меньшим числом голов

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Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
15.2.3.3	Locono
3.3.5.5	Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen)
3.3.5.7	Eastern Prussia
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
3.5.3.3	Transylvanian Saksons
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.1.4	Czech
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.2	Ukrainians: Eastern dialects
4.1.2.3	Ukrainians: Northern dialects
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
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
4.1.3.4	Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces
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)
4.2.3.2	Karelians
4.2.4.2	Estonians
4.2.4.3	Setu
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
5.2.1.1	Georgians
5.2.1.2	Mingrelians (Megrelians), Laz
5.4.4.2	Dards (Kalash, Kho, Kohistani, Shina, Pashai)
9.1.5.7	Mongols of Inner Mongolia
9.2.1.1	Mansi