μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Giant herdsman. Hideous beastlike giant guards a herd of wild fighting animals. Herdsman can seize one of them in such a way as to make rest beg mercy.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Giant ogres. · Giant ogres – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as G152

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Icelandic Boberg.
  • general *Brown Iwain 7ff.
Within the index

Filed under Giant ogres – miscellaneous.

1 finer motif beneath it
Giant with tree for herding-stick
Filed beside it
Two giants with one axe. They throw it back and forth to each other Giant hacked so that a staircase is made up his body. Hero climbs up and kills him King of the giants Giant ogre's prodigious speed Giant's shriek heard five miles away Giant issues out of tiny vessel Giant lives in a castle in the air Giant roasts camels, elephants for food on crater of volcano

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