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Motif

Name_eng:

The sleeping defender

Description:

Mighty hero is retired to the cave (tomb etc.) will come back to the world (to help his people) or he could come but decided not to do it

Name_rus:

Спящий защитник

Description_rus:

Находящийся в пещере (в склепе и т.п.) могучий богатырь когда-нибудь выйдет на свет (помочь своему народу) либо он мог бы выйти, но решает не делать этого

Motif type:

Adventures and tricks

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

08 Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
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
3.5.1.2	Bulgarians
3.5.2.2	Serbs, Monte Negro,
3.5.2.5	Slovenians
4.1.1.5	Slovakians
4.1.2.4	Rusyns, Hutsuls
4.2.5.2	Lithuanians
4.3.2.1	Mari (Cheremis)
4.3.2.3	Chuvash
5.1.4.2	Ossetians
5.4.3.2	Rushani, Shughni, Khufi, Bartangi