Giant throws a great rock — Mythoi

Motif

Giant throws a great rock.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.3.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Herrmann Saxo II 590, *Boberg
Norwegian Norske Folkminnelag VI 142
Finnish Aarne FFC XXXIII 44 No. 61
Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 47 No. 67
Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 127 No. 61
Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 32f. → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IV
general Broderius § 8
general **Höttges FFC CXXII 21ff., 196f. Irish myth: *Cross

Within the index

Filed under Gargantuan feats.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Giants throw stones after churches Giant slings stone with his garters (hair ribbon, etc.) Giants throw tools back and forth. Explains rocks, etc Giant hurls mountain

Filed beside it

Giant wades the ocean 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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Remarkable thrower. (Cf. F531.3.2., F624.0.1, F624.3.1, F624.8, F628.2.2, F628.4, X943.)

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 wades the ocean 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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