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Giants and their Origin

As to the origin and the Belief in Giants, Megalithic structures and ancient burial mounds have probably played their part in inspiring the myths and legends. Ancient Fossil animals such as Cave Bear and Mastodon bones may have been misinterperated by Native Americans and ancient Greeks as those of great heroes and Vilains. But the most likely scenario is that there were actual tribes and racial stocks of ancient man who stood between 2-3 metres of height. This can be testified even today with racial groups who live in East Africa and South America who commonly attain statures of 6-7 ft. Skeletons of this range and taller have been found all over the world-Many in the United States. Just take a look at the many different news headlines from The New York Times and Washington Post which gained national attention during the 19th and 20th centuries:

WASHINGTON POST HEADLINES:

· AN INDIAN GIANT’S TOMB

· A RACE OF GIANTS

· THE BONES OF A GIANT

· INDIANS SEVEN FEET TALL

· WARRIOR SKELETONS UNEARTHED

· Dug Up a Skeleton Eight Feet Long

· GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS; Monster Skeleton Discovered in the Miami Valley

· GIANTS' SKELETONS IN A CAVE

· SKELETONS OF DWARFS; Curious Specimens Brought from the Philippines

· EARLY AMERICAN GIANTS. ; Reasons for Believing that a Race of 20-footers Lived in Arizona.

· WILD SERI CANNIBALS

· ISLAND OF MYSTERY

· BONES OF GIANT ANCIENTS

· Giants’ Graves

· Find Horns on Human Skull

· OLD TIME GIANTS

· GIANT IN ANCIENT MOUND

· SOME HISTORIC GIANTS

· FIND PREHISTORIC GIANT

· SKULL GIVEN MUSEUM

· BONES OF STRANGE MEN

· Why Scientists Believe Mythical Monsters Existed

· FIND TWO SKELETONS OF PRIMITIVE MEN

· Giant Human Skeletons, 12 feet Long, are Found

· TRACES OF EARLIEST HUMAN RACE FOUND

· PREHISTORIC BONES REVEAL TRAGEDY OF GIANTS' LOST RACE

· Town Very Proud Of Skeleton Found

· Evidence of Giants Bared by Mounds

· 3 Huge Skeletons Of Humans Found

· WEIRD GIANTS of a DEAD PAST

· Oklahoma Indian Relics Unearthed; Thigh Bone of 9-Foot Man Found in Mound

· Largest Skull Ever Recorded is Discovered By Archeologist in Stafford County, Virginia

· Major Finds Grave of Giant Aleutian

· Giant's Skeleton Found by Soviets

· Mammoth Jaws Hint Existence of Prehistoric Giants

· Jaw and Skull of Oldest Man Safe in N.Y.

· Prehistoric Find Points to Giant Ape Man

· Strange Bones Dug Up

· Giant Skeleton

THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES:

· SKELETON OF GIANT FOUND

· Reported Discovery of a Huge Skeleton

· THE EARLY AMERICAN GIANT

· THE BEST ITEMS BY MAIL; UTAH MOUNDS REPORTED DISCOVERIES MADE BY RECENT EXCAVATIONS TWO SKELETONS FOUND AND ANCIENT RELICS NEAR THEM

· BONES OF ALLEGED BROOKLYN GIANTS

· TWO VERY TALL SKELETONS

· THE BONES OF A GIANT FOUND

· THE GRAVEYARD OF THE GIANTS

· THE CARSON FOOTPRINTS

· SKELETONS SEVEN FEET LONG

· MONSTER SKULLS AND BONES

· SKELETONS OF A FORMER RACE

· SKELETON OF A BIG INDIAN

· A RACE OF INDIAN GIANTS

· MOUND BUILDERS' SKELETONS FOUND

· MR. JEFFERSON'S CYCLOPS. ; A GIANT SKELETON UNEARTHED AT BUZZARD'S BAY

· THE WISCONSIN MOUNDS

· IN THE WISCONSIN MOUNDS

· A Race of Giants in Old Gaul

· GIANTS OF OTHER DAYS

· RELICS OF THE ABORIGINES

· A TALL SKELETON FOUND NEAR PHOENIX

· WISCONSIN MOUND OPENED

· GIANT SKELETONS FOUND

· UNEARTHING REVOLUTIONARY BONES AT 181st STREET

· FIND GIANT INDIANS' BONES

· GIANT RACE IN GREENLAND

· A NEW RACE OF GIANTS

· GIANTS' SKELETONS FOUND

· STRANGE SKELETONS FOUND

· FOUND GIANTS IN CHINA

· GIANTS' BONES IN MOUND

· Not Human Skulls with Horns

· Unearths Skeleton of Indian Giant

· OLDEST SKULLS YET FOUND

· FIND SKELETON OF GIANT

· MUMMIES FOUND IN CAVES

· FIND FLORIDA GIANTS' BONES

· PUT MAN’S AGE BACK TEN MILLION YEARS

· GIANTS' BONES IN MEXICO

· GIANTS SURVIVE THE AGE OF FABLE

· HEADLESS GIANT BODIES FOUND IN PARIS GRAVES

· OLD ROYAL TOMB UNEARTHED IN OHIO

· UNEARTH THE BONES OF TEN-FOOT GIANTS

· FIND BONES IN MOUNDS

· THE GOBI GIVES US A MONSTER

· TAKING THOUGHT ABOUT STATURE

· ‘Oldest Human Footprint’ Points to Primitive Giants in Africa

· Skeleton of Giant Early Man Reported Unearthed in Mexico

· REPORTS FIND OF BONES OF MEN 8 FEET TALL

· FIND ANCIENT BONES NEAR PITTSBURGH

· EIGHT MT. CARMEL SKELETONS REACH LONDON

· INDIAN BURIAL MOUND YIELDS MANY RELICS

· Bones of Huge Man Reported

· CHILEAN FOSSIL MAN SEEN

· HINTS ‘GIANT’ ANCESTORS

· GIANT BONES IN RUSSIA

· ‘Largest’ Ape Man Found in Africa; Indicated to Top 9-Foot Java Man

· IN SEARCH OF EARLY AMERICANS

Red hair & double rows of teeth

I noticed that several of the giant types were described as having red hair and double sets of teeth. Interestingly, red hair and double sets of teeth are also associated with a disease called Hyper-IgE syndrome. (Hyper-IgE syndrome, however, is not normally associated with gigantism). Nortonew 18:55, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Trolls

The mentioning of trolls here is ignorant. "Troll" is simply the traditional name of giants in post-medieval Scandinavian folklore. In the Norwegian fairy tales collected in the 19th century, trolls are usually depicted as evil, but rather stupid, giants. Outside the fairy tales, the term has a wider meaning though, and also includes smaller "supernormal" beings and evil forces of nature (the word might even be used for animal predators in some sources). As an adverb, the word might also point to magic: Trolldom = witchcraft; trollkjerring, -kvinne = female witch; trollkarl, -mann = male witch; trollfolk = people with magic powers. Å trolle = to execute magic; fortrolle = bewitch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.212.42.108 (talk) 22:20, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Skeleton of Giant

I don't know where to place this in the article but there has been a hoax roaming the internet about the finding of a giant human skeleton. This has been reported by the National Geographic.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 12:49, 30 September 2009 (UTC) A human skeleton measuring 3.6 meters (12 feet) tall was unearthed at Lompock Rancho, California, in 1833 by soldiers digging in a pit for a powder magazine. The specimen had a double row of teeth and was surrounded by numerous stone axes, carved shells and porphyry blocks with abstruse symbols associated with it. Where is the source evidence ?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.34.223.1 (talk) 15:17, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Important link

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/giant-skeleton.html

Above is the website which states that those giant human skeleton pictures are false. It also provides the link of where those pictures were taken from. It was from some online image contest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.111.248.47 (talk) 20:31, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Should giantesses in fiction be a seperate ategory from giants in fiction?

I think this is one of those categories like witch that is gender specific. CensoredScribe (talk) 20:52, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Egyptian Giants???

I looked up 1 Chronicles 11:23, but it doesn't mention any "giants of Egypt". It mentions one Egyptian person who was very big. He's not a mythological giant. 178.48.52.73 (talk) 05:14, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

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