List of giants in mythology and folklore
This is a list of giants and giantesses from mythology and folklore; it does not include giants from modern fantasy fiction or role-playing games (for those, see list of species in fantasy fiction).
Abrahamic religion
Greek and Roman mythology
- Argus Panoptes
- Caca
- Cacus
- Cyclopes
- Arges
- Brontes
- Polyphemus
- Steropes
- Geryon
- Gigantes:
- Hekatonkheires
- Briareus
- Gyges
- Cottu
- Menoetius
- Talos
- Titans:
Hindu mythology
Norse mythology
Native American mythology
Shinto folklore
- Emperor Keikō - According to records, this 1st century AD emperor stood 10ft 2in tall.[1]
- Emperor Chūai - Was said to be ten feet tall, with "a countenance of perfect beauty".[1]
Other
- Brobdingnag giant, from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
- Paul Bunyan (American folklore)
- Ferragut (also known as Ferragus, Ferracutus, etc.)
- Flaming Teeth, a giant in Fijian mythology
- Hurtaly (Og, Jewish mythology)
- Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Genie, a giant spirit or jinn inhabiting a lamp in Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp, (re-written by Sir Richard Francis Burton) from One Thousand and One Nights
- Gogmagog
- John Henry (American folklore)
- Iovan Iorgovan (Romanian mythology)
- Jentilak or Gentiles: (Basque mythology)
- Kapre (Philippine mythology)
- Kroni (Ayyavazhi mythology)
- Ojáncanu (Cantabrian mythology)
- Ogias the Giant (Manichaean mythology)
- Oni (Japanese folklore)
- St Christopher (Roman Catholic)
- ‘Uj ibn Anaq (Islamic mythology)
- Matsieng
- Ellert and Brammert
- Crooked Mick (Australian folklore)
- Mbombo (African folklore)
- Kua Fu (Chinese mythology)
- Pecos Bill(American folklore)
- Alfred Bulltop Stormalong(American folklore)
See also
References
- Frank Brinkley, Dairoku Kikuchi (1915). A History of the Japanese People: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era. Encyclopaedia Brit. Company. p. 85, 88–89. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
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