Little did he realize the chains are made of 5,000-year-old bronze.
Two social scientists have discovered that storytelling began in the Bronze Age with "The Smith and the Devil," a tale of entrepreneurship, evil and technology (in this case, metallurgy).
A blacksmith offers his soul to the devil, in exchange for the power to weld any materials together. The wily smith then uses his new-found power to weld the devil to a tree, reneging on his side of the bargain.
The scientists' findings confirm the suspicions of the Brothers Grimm, who claimed their stories were artifacts of a "great race which is commonly called Indo-Germanic."
With hard evidence of storytelling's Bronze Age-origins, it's time to consider renaming Bog Man.
You guessed it.
Blog Man.
