Kineski zid u balkanskom folkloru
The Chinese Wall in the Balkan Folklore

Summary/Abstract: The Serbo-Croatian Moslems also have the Oriental Moslem tradition of Dadjdjal the Moslem Antichrist, as well as the tradition of the Biblical Gog and Magog, According to a Bosnian folk belief. Dadjdjal, Gog and Magog are in a citadel, surrounded by a wall and called "Ćin i Maćin”, as Bosnian Moslems pronounce the names China and Manchou, used both for the two nations and their countries. In the author’s opinion the motif of the Chinese Wall came independently of the myth of Dadjdjal into Bosnia, where it became a part of that myth. By the way and as an argument the author presents the fact that several motifs from the medieval novel of Alexander the Great, have penetrated even into the folk tradition of the Bosnian Serb; this tradition now contains a motif of Russia as a far distant country having built a great wall in order to defend itself from the Cynocephals.

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