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Heavy iron chains hanging slack from a cellar wall, an empty bucket beneath them

the chains in the cellar

In Marya Morevna he is found chained in a locked room, starving. Given water he bursts the chains and takes the woman. The tale makes his captivity the hero's mistake, not his own weakness.

Basis: Marya Morevna, Afanasyev · AI-generated

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