μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Giant wades the ocean.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.3.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Norwegian Norske Folkminnelag I 65 No. 47, IX 99
  • German Grimm Deutsche Sagen (Berlin, 1905) No. 319
  • Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 31 n. 4 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IV
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 737.
  • general *Krappe Études 79ff.
  • general Broderius § 21. England: Baughman
Within the index

Filed under Gargantuan feats.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Water enters into giant's boots from above Giant's leg stops ship at sea Thor carries giant in basket across icy stream Giant blows to prevent approach of ship
Filed beside it
Giant throws a great rock Giant astride a church-roof. Rides it like a horse Giant eats (drinks) prodigious amount Giant steps prodigious distance Giants carry church across a stream Giant comes to bake too soon; spills dough. Giant who has common oven with another thinks he hears companion in next valley scraping the kneading trough. He bakes his dough but finds he is too early and that he has only heard himself scratching. He spills the dough: hence fruitful soil. (Cf. F451.7.2, F455.3.5.) Giants' shouts are storms or great noise Giants sit on mountains and wash feet in stream below Giants carry trees. (Cf. F631.) Giant swallows men Giant's hunting (fishing) Giant (giantess) carries prodigious burden Beam breaks at giant's glance Giants' awful amusements, playing with men's lives
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Tabu: mortal lusting after goddess Giant. A person of enormous size. (For giants who are primarily ogres see G100 and G400–G599.) Giant throws a great rock Blindness healed by sun's rays Ogre made drunk and overcome Prophecy: future greatness of unborn child. (Cf. M301.2.2, M301.5.1, M301.12, M359.3, M371.1.) God swallows his pregnant wife to prevent birth of son whom he fears Flaying alive as punishment for contesting with a god Birth from person's head

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