Giants carry trees. (Cf. F631.)

Motif

Giants carry trees. (Cf. F631.)

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.3.10

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 2020.— THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR.

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Irish mythCross
French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 12
Missouri FrenchCarrière.

Within the index

Filed under Gargantuan feats.

Filed beside it

Giant wades the ocean 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 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

Travels with

Strong man carries giant load. (Cf. F531.3.10, F624.)

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