μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Finnish-Swedish Wessman 66 Nos. 565–592
  • Estonian Loorits Grundzüge I 465–490
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3720
  • Germanic Meyer Germanen 226ff.
  • French Sébillot France IV 455 s. v. "Géants", "Gargantua", Sébillot **Gargantua dans les Traditions Populaires
  • Greek Frazer 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)

…and 4 more.

Within the index

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 (Thompson’s cf.)
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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