Scholar Mircea Eliade dedicated a separate chapter to "Voivode Dragoș and the ritual hunt" in his "De Zalmoxis à Gengis-Khan" ("From Zalmoxis to Genghis Khan"), published in Paris in 1970. He concluded that the two principal motifs of the legendthe hunting and the sacrifice of the aurochswere probably based on an "authochtonous legend", describing a "heroic act" connected, for instance, to the foundation of a local chiefdom or to an act of colonization, even if the existence of a similar Dacian legend could not be proven. Eliade says that the legend of Dragoș's hunting was only stylistically influenced by the similar Hungarian legend of Hunor and Magor.