μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Underground monster fettered by trick. Is persuaded to try on fetters. (Sometimes told of fettering Satan, who plays same role.)

Mythological motifs. · World calamities and renewals. · Fettered monster's escape at end of world. · view the constellation · filed as A1071.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Lithuanian Balys Lithuanian Legends of the Devil in Chains (Tautosakos Darbai III [1937] 321–331.)
  • general *Type 803
  • general *Olrik Ragnarök 204ff., 248ff.
Within the index

Filed under Fettering of underground monster.

Filed beside it
Forging of chain for fettered monster. Smiths hit once in three or four times on the bare anvil. All of these blows go to forging chains for the monster (devil)
Carried in tale types

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