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Motif

Name_eng:

The search of immortality

Description:

Setting off in search of the land of immortality, the hero comes across persons or animals who are involved in activity that needs tremendous time to be completed. However the hero is eager to obtain not the long but the eternal life and he continues his search

Name_rus:

Поиск бессмертия

Description_rus:

Отправившись на поиски страны, где нет смерти, человек встречает персонажей, занимающихся делами, завершить которые можно лишь за чудовищно долгое время. Однако герою нужна не долгая, а вечная жизнь, и он идет дальше

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:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
3.3.2.3	Sardinia, Corsica
3.3.2.8	Italians: Northeast (Trentino – Alto Adige, Veneto, Venezia Giulia, Southern Tirol, Friuli, Istria)
3.3.3.2	French (northern France)
3.5.3.1	Hungarians
3.5.3.2	Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians
4.1.1.1	Poles
4.1.2.1	Ukrainians: Western dialects to the East of Carpathians
5.1.7.9	Tats
5.2.1.1	Georgians