53 motifs match “giantess”  ·  back to the chapters

• God as son of giantess. A112.4.1
• God as son of nine giantesses. A112.5
• God as lover of giantess. A164.6
• River from urine of goddess (giantess). A933
• Islands from stones cast by giantess. (Cf. A901, A963.5.) A955.6
• Transformation: god to giantess. D12.1
• Transformation: man-eating giantess to stone. D429.2.2.1
• Giantess's cloak makes man grow. D537.2.1
• Magic object received from giantess in dream. D812.8.1
• Giantess' punishment is pure illusion. D2031.0.5
• Dwarfs kill giantess by dropping millstone on her head. F451.10.2.1
• Beautiful giantess. F531.1.0.1.1
• Giantess with green eyes. F531.1.1.6
• Giant (giantess) with lips hanging down on the breast. F531.1.4.2
• Breasts of giantess. F531.1.5
• Giantess throws her breasts over her shoulders. Her two sons can run after her and suck. F531.1.5.1
• Giantess with iron nails. F531.1.6.1.1
• Giants (giantesses) with long teeth. F531.1.6.2.1
• Giant (giantess) with particularly long hair. F531.1.6.3.1
• Giantess with burned arms. F531.1.6.7.3
• Giant (giantess) with hump. F531.1.6.11
• Giantess with a tail (many tails). F531.1.6.14
• Giantess in crow's shape. F531.1.8.4
• Giantess transforms self to fly in order to tear woman's stomach. F531.1.8.5
• Giant (giantess) as sea-mammal. F531.1.8.8
• Giants and giantesses dressed as human beings. F531.1.11
• Giantess is twice as tall as tall man. F531.2.1.6
• Giantess is more broad than tall. F531.2.5.1
• Giantess so heavy that boat almost sinks. F531.2.13
• Giantess sings so that it gives echo in all cliffs. F531.3.8.4
• Giantess kills monstrous bear. F531.3.12.3
• Giant (giantess) carries prodigious burden. F531.3.13
• Giantess in obscenely shriveled skin skirt. F531.4.7.1.2
• Giantess in red dress. F531.4.7.3
• 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
• Giantesses pursue men in order to marry them. F531.5.7.0.3
• Mortal son of man and giantess. F531.5.7.1.1
• Giantess daughter of giant and abducted maiden (therefore helps hero). F531.5.7.1.2
• Giant in love with giantess. F531.6.8.1
• Giants and giantesses fight about treasures. F531.6.8.3.1
• Fire-spewing giantess. G125
• Quest accomplished with aid of giantess. H1233.4.2
• Giantess killed with the spear she herself has given hero. K818.2
• Giant's (giantess's) head cut off as he (she) looks out. K912.1
• Giantess frightened of leaving cave because of hero's statue in entrance. K1726
• Giantess lays a curse on the one on earth who eventually hears her. M411.9
• Giantess as foster mother and helper of hero. N812.2
• Grateful giantess as helper. N812.3
• Giantess helps the man she loves. N812.4
• Hero's son by giantess scorns his father's feebleness: still it is the son who is slain. P233.3.1
• Abduction of bridegroom and killing of his bride planned as giantess's revenge. R10.4.1
• Groom as prisoner in his and giantess's bridal chamber. (Cf. R41.5.) R41.4
• God as lover of giantess (18 giantesses). T111.4