Giant steps prodigious distance — Mythoi

Motif

Giant steps prodigious distance.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.3.5

Filed across the traditions

England Baughman
Norwegian Norske Folkeminnelag I 61, 65, II 30, 118, IV 101, XIII 26
Finnish-Swedish Landtmann Finlands Svenska Folkdiktning VII 539, 540, 549, Wessmann 66 No. 570
Danish Ohrt Danmarks Folkeminder XXI 22
Jewish Neuman
Hawaii Beckwith Myth 474
Eskimo (Central) Boas RBAE VI 638.
general Broderius § 21
general *Höttges FFC CXXII 165ff., 281f. Irish myth: Cross

Within the index

Filed under Gargantuan feats.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Giant bestrides mountain Giant's mighty stride spans earth's width Giant stands astride river

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 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

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