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

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

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

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“The legend, these writers inform us, was told to explain why the maiden goddess Artemis was invoked by women in childbed, Now Artemis devoted herself to the chase and remained a maid; but Apollo learned the art of prophecy from Pan, theson of Zeus and Hybris,! and came to Delphi, where Themis at that time used to deliver oracles;? and when the snake Python, which guarded the oracle, would have hindered him from approaching the chasm,?…”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IV · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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GreekThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IVThompson cites: Frazer Apollodorus I 32f.

Scholars’ trail — 26references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Icelandic*Boberg
Finnish-SwedishWessman 66 Nos. 565–592
EstonianLoorits Grundzüge I 465–490
LithuanianBalys Index No. 3720
GermanicMeyer Germanen 226ff.
FrenchSébillot France IV 455 s. v. "Géants", "Gargantua", Sébillot **Gargantua dans les Traditions Populaires
GreekFrazer Apollodorus I 32f. → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IV
Jewish*Neuman Arabian: Burton Nights I 65n., V 316, VI 24n., 84, 265n., 268ff., VII 84n.
Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 47, 430, Holm 7, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 656, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 167
N. Am. Indian (Tahltan)Teit JAFL XXXIV 346ff. Nos. 69, 70, 73, (Kaska): Teit JAFL XXX 446 No. 7, (Aztec): Alexander Lat. Am. 92f.
general [Note: This treatment of giants is largely based on a doctoral dissertation (University of Chicago, 1930), "The Giant in Germanic Tradition" by John R. Broderius. (University of Chicago, 1930
general lithoprinted 1933.) For full titles of reference, see F420.] *BP III 375
general *Fb "kjæmpe" II 149, "Langben Rise" II 377b
general Lorenz Das Titan-Motiv in der allgemeinen Mythologie (Imago II 1913] 22–72)
general Weinhold Die Riesen des germanischen Mythus (Sitzungsberichte d. kais. Akad. d. Wiss. XXVI [1858] 225–306)
general Laistner Nebelsagen (Stuttgart, 1860)
general Schoning Dödsriger i Nordisk Hedentro (København, 1903)
general **Von Sydow Jätterna i Mytologi och Folktro (F och F [1919] 52–96)
general Ahrendt Die Riese in der mittelhochdeutschen Epik (Rostock, 1923)
general **F. Wolgemuth Riesen u. Zwerge in den altfranzösischen erzählenden Dichtung (Tübingen, 1906)
general **V. Höttges Typenverzeichnis der deutschen Riesen
general und riesischen Teufelssagen FFC CXXII (Helsinki, 1937)

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Filed under Exceptionally large or small men.

10 finer motifs beneath 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 Gargantuan feats Gigantic possessions of giant Giants and men Other giant motifs

Filed beside it

Remarkably broad man Remarkably tall man. (Cf. F531.2.1.)Pygmy. Remarkably small man. Also called "dwarf". To be distinguished from the dwarfs who live in the woods and inhabit underground places (F451)

Travels with

Revenant as a very large man (giant). (Cf. F531.)Giants in otherworld. (Cf. F531.)Wood-spirit gigantic. (Cf. F232.6, F531.)Battle between giants and dwarfs; dwarfs win. (Cf. F531.)Abduction by giant. (Cf. F531, G100.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Tabu: mortal lusting after goddess Giant wades the ocean Giant throws a great rock 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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