μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Filed under Gargantuan feats.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Giant threads an elephant on a fish-hookGiant fishes whalesGiantess kills monstrous bear
Filed beside it
Giant wades the oceanGiant 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 (giantess) carries prodigious burdenBeam breaks at giant's glanceGiants' awful amusements, playing with men's lives

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