Giants sit on mountains and wash feet in stream below — Mythoi

Motif

Giants sit on mountains and wash feet in stream below.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.3.9

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic MacCulloch Eddic 285, *Boberg
Danish Danmarks Folkeminder No. 40 (1933) 71
Norse Norsk Folkminnelag XIII 28
Swiss Henne-Am Rhyn No. 611
French Sébillot France I 232.
general Broderius § 21

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 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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