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Among the numerous heroes of the Bosnian oral epic and the overall epic of the South Slavic region, there is Tale Ličanin as the most independent phenomenon - within the epic world, but also outside of it. He has long been recognized as a čauš in wedding-themed songs, a harlequin, an entertainer, and a completely carnivalesque hero, who violates the postulates of the epic world with his appearance and behavior. Still, it does not prevent him from entering every battle with heroic readiness and emerging as an undoubted winner. Therefore, his inner reality must necessarily be different from other epic heroes, because everything his appearance manifests must have some inner reason. There must be some inner driver of him as such. The search for his inner reality flows through a selection of poetic images in which his driving secret appears only in glimpses, which ultimately results in a clear discernment of the exceptional layers of his character as an epic hero. This hero's questionable characterizations are well founded, but their rationale, origin, and function are mostly overlooked.

The correlation between a person and a character has always attracted the attention of researchers in both oral and written literature. The main difference is that researchers of oral epics always undertook detailed searches for the historical figure based on which the epic hero was created, while the latter more often recognized the writer himself and his private life within his artistic fiction. Alija Bojičić represents one of the most important heroes of Bosniak oral epics, whose action will be in the border area of Bosnia and Dalmatia, and the poems in which he appears are often classified in the uskok/hajduk epic cycles. History has offered at least three historical figures who could have served the epic singer to create this character. It can certainly be said that the oldest historical ancestor had the greatest influence on the features and characteristics of this epic hero. So far, research into the relationship between personality and character in Bosniak oral epics has focused on Alija Đerzelez and Mujo Hrnjica, while Alija Bojičić remained on the sidelines.