61 motifs match “giant's”  ·  back to the chapters

• Earth from giant's body (Ymir). (Cf. A614.1.) A831.2
• Mountains from stones dropped from giant's clothes. He carries the stones in his clothes but loses them as he walks. A963.1
• Flood from slain giant's blood. A1012.3.1
• Mankind begotten by giant's two feet. He touches one foot with the other and begets progeny. A1221.1
• Sea formed from giant's spittle. (Cf. D1001.) D483
• Magic object found in giant's cave. D845.1
• Giant's soul in a mole in the hollow of his palm. E714.9
• Giant's self-returning head. F531.1.2.3
• Giant's step leaves deep furrows. F531.1.3.4
• Giant's peculiar cheeks. F531.1.6.8
• Giant's strength in hair. (Cf. D1831, G221.1.) F531.1.6.13
• Waters of Deluge reach to giant's ankles. F531.2.1.3
• Giant's ears six hundred feet long. F531.2.2.2
• Giant's skull holds a man seated. F531.2.3
• Giant's skull so large fowl can pass through eye-hole. F531.2.3.1
• Giant's skull holds three hounds. F531.2.3.2
• Giant's large footprints. (Cf. F531.2.1.2.) F531.2.4
• Sack of earth in giant's hand looks no bigger than a pea in hand of a man. F531.2.15
• Water enters into giant's boots from above. F531.3.1.1
• Giant's leg stops ship at sea. F531.3.1.2
• Giant's mighty stride spans earth's width. F531.3.5.2
• Giant's snoring as thunder or storm. F531.3.8.1
• Giant's snoring felt as rain. F531.3.8.2
• Earthquake by giant's wrestling. F531.3.8.5.1
• Giant's hunting (fishing). F531.3.12
• Beam breaks at giant's glance. F531.3.14
• Giant's enormous weapons. F531.4.5
• Giant's clothes. F531.4.7
• Giant's huge kettle. F531.4.9
• Giant's enormous bed. F531.4.10
• Giant's enormous animals. F531.4.11
• Foxes as giant's lice. F531.4.11.2
• Giant's net can hem in whole forest. F531.4.12
• Man mistakes giant's glove for house. F531.5.2
• Giant's toy. A young giantess picks up a man plowing. Wants him as a toy. Her mother says, "Take him back. He will drive us away." (Cf. F531.5.1.) F531.5.3
• Giant's head gnawed by foxes: thinks soot is falling on him. F531.5.4.2
• Giant's present: magic loaf producing inexhaustible harvest. F531.5.6.2
• Giant's presents cease when source is disclosed. (Cf. F348.5.) F531.5.6.3
• Man kills giant's baby. F531.5.14
• Giant's home beneath waterfall in lake. F531.6.2.2.3
• Men not to disclose giant's home. (Cf. C420.) F531.6.3.0.1
• Giant's treasure. (Cf. F531.6.8.3.1.) F531.6.7
• Giant's animals help him in fight. F531.6.16.2
• One of man's (giant's) eyes protrudes, other recedes. (Cf. F1041.16.2.) F541.5
• Skillful marksman shoots meat from giant's hands. F661.1
• Man builds boat and sails about in giant's belly. F911.5.1
• Giant's fields fertile; others arid. G112
• Giant's hair grows into rock. He is thus kept from falling from cliff. G122
• Giant's shriek heard five miles away. G158
• Hero as giant's (ogre's) goatherd. G462.1
• Giant's (ogre's) arm pulled (cut) off by defender of castle (house). G512.6.1
• Quest to giant's land. H1289.3
• Cheese smeared on crab lures giant to smell him. Crab pinches giant's neck and kills him. K827.5
• Giant's (giantess's) head cut off as he (she) looks out. K912.1
• Man transforms self to gadfly to enter giant's stomach and kill him. K952.2
• Rafter supporting giant's house cut half through, so that it can be drawn down from the outside, and the giant killed. K959.3.1
• Giant's help secured by feeding him. N812.0.1
• Princess rescued from giant's cave where she is fettered to a chair by the hair. (Cf. R41.5.) R111.2.3
• Rescue of earl's daughter from giant's cave where she is chained to the wall (a pillar). R111.2.3.1
• Giant's daughter loves hero. See references to G530.2. T91.1
• Giant's daughter has child by hero. T91.1.1