C33A. Restored chain .16.27.-.31.

For a year, someone tries to cut or break the chain or rope that holds him or another character. On a certain day of the year, when the chain is completely thinner, it restores its original form, or the pole to which the chain is attached returns to the ground. Cf. G8d motive.

Germans (Tyrol, Bavaria), Macedonians, Albanians, Serbs, Poles, Ukrainians (Hutsulshchyna, Galicia, Chernihiv, Poltava), Belarusians, Adygs, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Ingush, Laki, Swans, Georgians, Megrelians, Armenians, Persians, Finns, Estonians, Lutsies, (Latvians), Lithuanians, Norwegians.

Western Europe. Germans (Tyrol) [The night before the holidays, blacksmiths hit the anvil three times to attach the chains of Lucifer, who could otherwise break out and turn the world upside down; in Wildschönau place Lucifera is intercepted by a wolf sitting on a triple iron chain behind nine iron doors]: Miller 2013:835 (=2008:835); Germans (Lower Bavaria, Waldkirchen) [the last blacksmith leaving the forge hits the anvil three times to prevent the devil from cutting his chains; he saws all the time, so on St. Jacob (June 25) the chain becomes as thin as a thread. But on this day, if the rite is performed, the chain thickens again]: Miller 2013:835.

The Balkans. Macedonians [the ground rests on a pole behind which an ox or buffalo is tied; when it itches, earthquakes occur; an ox licks a pole, it becomes thinner, but Spyriden is hit by blacksmiths the anvil and the pillar are being restored again]: Tsenev 2004:23; Albanians [the devil is chained to a rock; he has been eating the chain for a whole year, and by Holy Saturday its links are as thin as legumes leaves; but on Bright Sunday, the Savior comes and chains the devil with a new chain]: Miller 2013:835; Serbs [Tsar Duklyan (Duklyanin), a hater and enemy of God; the name is raised to the emperor's name Diocletian, the persecutor of Christians; chained D. gnaws his chains all the time and on Christmas eve they turn out to be very thin; but then gypsy blacksmiths hit the anvil with hammers, and D.'s chains become strong as before]: Kulishi et al. 1970:122.

Central Europe. Poles [the peasant spends the night in the tavern; robbers come; when he sees an outsider, the chieftain beats him, but it turns out that the man is covered with armor; the next day, the robbers solder him, he is in front of He read only half of the prayer in sleep, half covered with armor; the next evening he did not read it at all; the chieftain does not kill him, but asks him to pray for him; wheat has grown, the peasant is lucky to sell it, gets stuck in the swamp, says that the hell will not help; the devil appears, pulls out the cart for promising to give what he does not know at home; the young man grows up, goes to hell to return the contract with the devil; he meets him in the forest chieftain of robbers; asks to know what awaits him in hell; in hell, Beelzebub is chained with 12 chains, burns in fire; devils are sawing chains with saws, they are almost sawn, but Easter is coming and shouting "Christ is risen" the chains are being restored; the young man outlined himself with chalk, began to sprinkle holy water; one drop fell on Beelzebub's forehead; he orders to blow pipes; after the third time he is a lame devil, returns the contract; he is shown the robber's bed; it shrinks and lengthens, from above there is a fiery sulfur rain, fire and knives around; when he returns to the forest, the young man penances the robber; he must distribute wealth, will be forgiven when his baton sprouts; the young man is ordained a priest; one day he sees an apple tree in the forest, it has grown out of a baton; the priest tells us to remember all sins; after each one named one apple falls; it turns out that the robber then saved the young man's father; when he says that he killed his father and mother, the last two apples fall, the elder dies, is forgiven]: Dombrovsky 1992:52-67; Ukrainians (Galicia, Hutsulshchina, Poltava), Belarusians (Dobrovolsky; Romanov) [Satan's chain: Christ frees sinners from hell, but leaves King Solomon there; he chains Satan (Lucifer) to a chain which he constantly gnaws, but every year after Easter it becomes the same]: SUS 1879, No. 803:202 {Russians are mentioned, but the reference is only to Chernyshev 1936, where there is no motive for chained Satan}; Belarusians []: Dobrovolsky, 1891, No. 32:258-266; (cf. Russians (from "Censorship Exemptions from A.N. Afanasyev's Fairy Tales) [before Christ, all the dead were sitting in hell; Anna the Prophetess also prophetess prophetess would lead them out; when Jesus and the apostles entered Hell, hell was cracking; Satanael shouted, "Hell, be strong!" ; Christ brought everyone out, but Solomon was left: you are a cunning muder yourself, so go out to your wisdom; Solomon began to measure hell and say: There will be a church here, there will be a chapel; Satanael: why are you crowding me? Solomon: You will have three arshins in the corner; Satanael is angry and has driven Solomon out of hell; he knocks on the Kingdom of Heaven and asks if it is better there or in hell; he is told that in the Kingdom of Heaven; Solomon: show me a little; put his foot in; they began to shut Paradise, Solomon screamed: they pressed his leg; the door was opened slightly and Solomon entered Paradise]: Chernyshev 1936:311); Ukrainians (Chernihiv region) [Christbound devil tries to gnaw through the iron shackles; he almost succeeds, but when the words "Christ is risen" are said, the iron is restored]: Chubinsky 1872:195.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Blacksmiths hit the anvil with hammers, and the chain is restored. Adygs (Temirgoevtsy) [the sledge is cursed by God, chained to a mountain; his dog tries to gnaw through the chain, but when it becomes as thick as a needle, the blacksmiths close it again every time; the eagle arrives, sits on a pole, N. throws a stone, hits a pole, each time only drives it deeper into the ground]: Aliyeva et al. 1974:273-274; Abkhazians: Gartskia 1892, No. 2 [the girl promises not to marry; gives birth to a boy named Abrskill; he is mighty, kills red-haired and blue-eyed people, cuts vines if they prevent them from passing so as not to bow his head; God sent angels to catch him; A. the horse jumps from mountain to sea and then back; the old woman advised to put greased skins on the mountain; A.'s horse slipped, the angels chained A. in the cave; God told the old woman to guard him, she secretly became to bring him food, God turned her into a dog; A.'s horse licks his chain, bringing him to the thickness of a silk thread; at this time, a hungry puppy opens his mouth and becomes full, the chain is restored; one day the group people came to A. in his cave but did not see him; A. said that as they approached him, he was removed from them; people said that everyone in Abkhazia still came back]: 34-38; Zukhba 1995 [the demon seduced the maiden, Abrskill was born; imagined himself a god; he rushed in the sky on his horse, cut clouds with a sword, carving lightning; filling dry cow skins with stones, tied them to the saddle, stones collided, sounding like thunder; God told the angels to grab him; they greased his skins, put him on the shore, the horse slipped, A. fell; he was chained to an iron pole in a cave; or the woodpecker made a hole With his beak, A.'s staff, with which he jumped from mountain to shore; he fell; every year A. almost pulls out a pole; a wagtail sits on it, A. tries to hit it with a hammer, the pole enters the ground]: 242-250; Lukyanov 1904, No. 3 [the giant is chained to a rock; his favorite dog licks the chain; as soon as the chain is rubbed, the giant will shake and destroy the earth]: 29; Khvartsky 1994:8-11 [], 12-16 [Princess Meghri gives birth to A. from evil spirit; God sends angels to pacify him; the horse eats the chain of chained A.; every time he goes to drink water, the chain becomes thick again], 17-22 [Astana girl gives birth to A.; he calls the creator a friend, not a master; God sends angels to pacify A., they chain him to an iron stake; every time A. loosens a stake, a bird sits on the stake, the hammer drives the stake into the ground]; Chursin 1957 [ Abrskill killed all the red and blue-eyed people, as well as the name Ashb; people stretched a bull's skin on the road, put millet on it, A. fell, God chained him in a cave; a cat and a dog lick a chain; every time she is getting thinner, an old watchman tells her to be strong again]: 244; Ossetians (South Ossetia, one entry from the early 19th century) [God created four virtuous ones: Artavyz, man, sheep, wheat; and for each evil being: a woman for a man, a goat for a sheep, a bitter weed for wheat; A. should have been virtuous, but began to teach evil things; God told Uatzilla (the thunder) to grab him and he nailed him to the moon with iron nails; if he was free, he would eat all people; to prevent this, every blacksmith must hit the anvil once again; A. also causes lunar eclipses]: Gevorgian 2007:102-103; Ingush [Amiran is grieved for his audacity against the creator; his dogs chew on iron chains that day The New Year is ready to fall apart; but then blacksmiths hit iron three times with hammers and the shackles are restored]: Dakhkilgov 2003:108; Lucky [hero Amir summoned the supreme god of the Hall to compete; he threw stones at him, but A. threw them away; Z. threw a rock that A. could not grab hold of; then A. wrapped a rope around the rock, and Z. turned the rope into a chain and A. was chained to a rock; he cries, tears make the chain thinner; every blacksmith must hit the anvil three times with a hammer when he gets to work, after which Amir's chain becomes thicker; A. is chained somewhere in the mountains]: Khalidova 2012, No. 61:80 -81; swans: Lominadze 1903, No. 1 [blacksmith Darejiani from the top of Yalbuz (Elbrus) sees a crying beauty in the abyss on the golden ottoman, piles of gold all around; she goes down to her, she says that she is the wife of God Himself, who overthrew her for a crime; D.'s wife spies on him, cuts off the beautiful woman's hair; when D. comes, she rips her belly open, gives him their child, tells him to leave at the crossroads, dies; Jesus Christ, St. George and one of the angels give the boy the name Amiran; if he breaks this word three times, he will fall under the power of the devil; the dying hero tells A. to raise his two sons; they have become strong, and . killed them, the devils began to chase him; the next time he beat his horse; after the third violation of the word, the devils chained him to an iron pole in the abyss near Elbrus; he is also tied to a pole nine-headed divas; both try to reach checker A.; A. will be able to reach if his nails grow; therefore, swans do not cut off their nails during the first four days of the week; at this time they also grow in A .; the devils bird reports every time that the devils cut off their nails; one day A. will take possession of a sword, the diva will kill, golden times will come], 2 [poor parents have a son in old age; Christ called him Amiran; he defeated all the devas, summoned God himself to compete; he was immediately chained to an iron pole at the bottom of the abyss; nine hunters found him; he squeezed their bread, and blood flowed, his own is milk; said that life is so different now and with him; the Swans could not pick up his sword to serve him; the belt broke; they went for a strong belt, but could no longer find it; he tries to pull out a pole; every time a bird sits on the tip of a pole, shouts, Amiran leaves; A. swings at it, puts a pole in the ground]: 141-144, 145-147; Georgians: Janashvili 1903b [ Amiran is the son of Sulkalmakh and Darejan, his older brothers Badri (looks like a girl) and Usip (looks like a crystal fortress); his godfather is Jesus Christ; A. finds the deceased Tsamtsum, Usip's grandson; he killed everyone giants, he could not do one; the brothers meet this girl, he replies that he is going to devour Tsamtsum, Usip's grandson; A. kills him, he manages to talk about the girl Kamar overseas; they crawl out of his three heads white, red, black worms turn into dragons; black swallows A., brothers cut off his tail, A. cuts it from the inside, comes out bald; Igry made him hair; K. A. breaks the cup, all the dishes fly to the sky to her father; the chase; A. kills everyone by hitting Father K. in the legs, but his brothers died, he kills himself; the mouse licks the blood, K. kills the mouse, the mouse heals him , K. revives A. with the same grass; A. wins everyone, calls Jesus Christ; he offers him to pull the stake out of the ground; the stake turns into a tree to heaven, A. is attached to him; the raven delivers him every day bread and wine; the dog tries to lick the chain; on Good Thursday morning, all blacksmiths hit the anvil three times with hammers, the chain is restored; A. will be free on doomsday]: 158-167; Stamboliev 1896, No. 13 [A shepherd finds a cave where Amiran is chained; he says that he stole fire from heaven for people; an old man came to fight him, he lost consciousness, woke up chained; every seven years an angel brings him food and water, opens the cave wall; the shepherd ran to bring chains and ropes so that A. could pull up his sword lying at a distance; a group of hunters detained him; when the shepherd reached the cave , the entrance to it was closed]: 91-95; Stepanov 1893 [Amiran is God's godson; wants to go to fight the hero Ambrius; to save his godson from shame, God sends death to Ambria; the widow asks for it Amiran to fix the deceased's hand, Amiran cannot lift it; Amiran invites God himself to fight him; God suggests that he tie his leg to the stake with a lace, try to tear it; the lace turns into an iron chain; Amiran has inexhaustible bread and a jug of water in his hands; a sword at a distance, you can't reach it; the dog licks the chain, it is ready to break by Good Thursday, but in the morning all the blacksmiths hit with a hammer, the chain recovering; one day a hunter wandered to Amiran; could not lift his sword; Amiran sent him to pick up his sword for him, ordered a woman not to let his sword slip along the way (all blacksmiths and women are enemies Amirana, because they make chains and shoelaces); he let it slip, the entrance to the cave is closed]: 135-139; Chikovani 1986 [hunter Dargelan hears a woman scream, climbs a rock, Dali is there, he stayed with her; his lame the wife climbed the rock, cut off D.'s braids; she said that she would not live now, asked that their son Amiran be removed from her womb; if he stayed in her womb until the deadline, he would have defeated God; the child would need three months keep him in a calf tripe, then leave him on the bank of the Yamana River; the angel baptized him, put a dagger in his leg, said that no one would defeat him on the ground; A. got up from the cradle, beat Jaman's servants, who laughed at him; I. took him as a friend to his sons Usibi and Badri; all three grew up bullying people; they advise better revenge on the offender, because I. lost an eye; the mother does not want to speak , the brothers put hot khachapuri to her chest; dev wanted to take W. and B., I. gave his eyes in return; dev locks his brothers; his sister is chained in a corner; falling asleep, promises to eat A.; sister teaches to give she will pull a chain for her, she will pull the deva's sword stored in oil (A. himself will not pull it out of the oil), let A. put it to the neck of the sleeping maiden; A. killed the deva; breaking his oath, did not release him, but killed his sister; brothers they meet a deva who knocks his hair, the spindle is a millstone; he swallows A.; W. cuts off his tail; the brothers shout to Amiran that his dagger is in his leg; A. stabs the deva from the inside; does not want to go out through his mouth or ass, makes a hole in his side; one of his eyes remains inside the deva; he tells him to anoint his eye socket with a piece of his liver and lung, the eye recovers; A. laid the deva's side with a wooden flap, ordered return I.'s eye; the eye is in the box on the pole, the brothers return it to Yaman; the devas offer Amiran to get Ketu, the daughter of Keklutz the king, she is in a tower suspended from the sky; the deva makes a bridge across the sea from her braids, A. swears that he will take her with him; the brothers crossed when the woman was in the middle of the bridge, A. cut the braid, the woman fell into the sea; so A. broke his oath for the second time; Andreob is being taken to bury the alive, the dead would not be brought; one leg hung from the arba, plows the earth, A. threw it on the arba; Andreob asks for a hand, A. gives a rock, Andreob squeezes it with his hand; Andreob asks A. to take it with him He took his son; fearing that he would become too strong, killed; so for the third time he broke his oath; A. cut off the chains of the tower, Ketu and he fell in love with each other; K. teaches how to find a gap in her father's armor, A. cuts off his head; Ketu revives W. and B., who were killed by her father; A. even fought with God; he chained him to an iron pole; Kursh's dog is chained with him; both drag a pole, are about to tear it out; every year God sends a bird; that will sit on a pole, A. will swing, hit a pole, it enters the ground again; Kursha is an Orbi eagle puppy; she has one puppy with her chicks every spring; Kursha has eagle wings on her sides; God chained him together with A., because he destroyed many tours; the Svans cry for Kursh]: 284-294; Mashurko 1894:379 (vol. 9, dep. 2, p. 179, Imereti) [the queen of witches Rokapi is tied by God with an iron chain to an iron pole; she tries to pull it out; every time a shaktail appears and sits on a pole; R. tries to kill it with a hammer, but the bird flies away, and when hit, the pole goes deeper into the ground], 379-381 [Amiran promised to defeat God; the old man invited him to thread a needle, stick a needle into the rock, and throw a thread over himself; the needle became an iron stake, and the thread became a chain; a shepherd came, A. asked him to bring him a chain, so that he could use it to pull up a sword lying at a distance; the shepherd brought a chain, but his wife followed him and called out; the shepherd turned around, threw a chain at it, A. disappeared from sight; Amiran's dog licks the chain; in Great Thursday it must break; then the blacksmiths hit the anvil and the chain is restored; if A. is free, he will destroy all women and blacksmiths]; Megrelians [Amiran is the godson of Christ, invited him to fight him; he asked him to tear his threads first; put on threads, they turned into chains; A. pulls the stake and it rises; every year a quagmire tit arrives, which The Mingrelians consider it sacred and sits on a stake; A. tries to hit her with a club, the bird flies away, and he drives the stake deeper into the ground]: Mashurko 1894:378-379; Armenians: Harutyunyan 2004 [brave Artavazd at the curse of his father, King Artashes, the Kaji are shackled in the cave of Mount Masis; white and black dogs chew on his chains to free him; on New Year's Eve, the shackles become thinner, but when blacksmiths hammer blows The anvil is being restored again; if Artavazd could free himself, he would destroy the world]: 199; Ganalanyan 1979, No. 750 [Artavazd is chained in a cave; two dogs chewing on chains; at the sound of blacksmiths the shackles are being restored; therefore, blacksmiths hit the anvil three or four times on Sunday; otherwise A. will destroy the world], 811 [Artavazd has a possessed son Shidar; A. handed over the kingdom not to him; when S. He stepped on the bridge as horsemen, evil spirits threw him off, he died; the warriors spread the rumor that S. was chained inside the mountain; two dogs were licking chains, by the end of the year they would become like hair; if they break, S. would destroy the world; in At the beginning of the year, blacksmiths and other artisans hit three times with their tools, the chains are restored]: 241, 261; Shahnazaryan 1988 [David's son of Sasunsky broke the chains with which he was braided as a baby; he was named by the name of his grandfather Mher; his parents soon died; brother D. Chinchhaporik took his property, began to raise M.; his wife is afraid of M.'s strength, advises him to get rid of him; he goes to his grandfather's land, lives there; he is advised to better regain Sasun; his uncle drives him away , M. does not dare to kill him; M. is hired as an employee, kills those who offended him; kills a tiger; divides the river in two so that it does not flood the shores; builds a fortress; smashes Sasun; people curse him; he enters to Voronov Cave by Lake Van, it closes; it contains some water and bread, clover to the horse; on the day of ascension, people are afraid that M. will come out; one day he leaves, the old man replies that the world is still the same; M. promises to go out, when the people call him]: 61-86.

Iran - Central Asia. Persians [ritual attacks by Isfahan blacksmiths on an anvil to strengthen the shackles of a shackled giant]: Miller 2008:835.

Baltoscandia. Norwegians: Kvideland 1972, No. 33 in Uther 2004 (1), No. 803:447; (cf. Latvians [hell checks the guy's shackles forged by the guy to see if they're strong enough; in the end he turns out to be chained himself]: Aris, Medne 1977, No. 803:322); Lithuanians [on Easter when shouting Hallelujah! Lucifer's chain recovers]: Balys 1937, No. 803:83; Finns: Uther 2004 (1), No. 803:447; Lutsie [Solomon made strong shackles for a year; played cards with the devil for three years and when he won, shackled the line; but he broke the chain; forged the chain again, won again, and this time he shackled the hell in shackles; whoever sharpens a knife on Sunday thins the damn chains; whoever cuts something , cuts them; by Easter night, the chains become very thin, but when the priest in the church proclaims Hallelujah, the chains on the line become as strong as Solomon once made them]: Annom et al. 2018:46-47.