μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Gargantuan feats.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Exceptionally large or small men. · view the constellation · filed as F531.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Giant. A person of enormous size. (For giants who are primarily ogres see G100 and G400–G599.)

15 finer motifs beneath 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 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
Filed beside it
Biblical worthy as giant Giant as Creator's servant Generation of men at the Deluge gigantic Giant woman Appearance of giant Size of giant Gigantic possessions of giant Giants and men Other giant motifs

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