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

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“The legend, these writers inform us, was told to explain why the maiden goddess Artemis was invoked by women in childbed, Now Artemis devoted herself to the chase and remained a maid; but Apollo learned the art of prophecy from Pan, theson of Zeus and Hybris,! and came to Delphi, where Themis at that time used to deliver oracles;? and when the snake Python, which guarded the oracle, would have hindered him from approaching the chasm,?…”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IV · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • NorwegianNorske Folkminnelag I 65 No. 47, IX 99
  • GermanGrimm Deutsche Sagen (Berlin, 1905) No. 319
  • GreekFrazer Apollodorus I 31 n. 4 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IV
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera 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 aboveGiant's leg stops ship at seaThor carries giant in basket across icy streamGiant blows to prevent approach of ship
Filed beside it
Giant throws a great rockGiant astride a church-roof. Rides it like a horseGiant eats (drinks) prodigious amountGiant steps prodigious distanceGiants carry church across a streamGiant 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 noiseGiants sit on mountains and wash feet in stream belowGiants carry trees. (Cf. F631.)Giant swallows menGiant's hunting (fishing)Giant (giantess) carries prodigious burdenBeam breaks at giant's glanceGiants' awful amusements, playing with men's lives
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Tabu: mortal lusting after goddessGiant. A person of enormous size. (For giants who are primarily ogres see G100 and G400–G599.)Giant throws a great rockBlindness healed by sun's raysOgre made drunk and overcomeProphecy: 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 fearsFlaying alive as punishment for contesting with a godBirth from person's head

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