Giant

Lintao Giant

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Tradition / Region: Chinese mythology
Alternate Names: —
Category: Giant

The Myth

The Lintao Giant is a giant recorded in Chinese legend. It is said that in the twenty-sixth year of Qin Shi Huang’s reign, giants appeared at Lintao. They were extremely tall, about 8 meters in height, with feet about 1.4 meters long, and wore foreign clothing. Some accounts say there were twelve of them.

It is said that after these giants appeared, twelve bronze statues were made to resemble them.

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Sources

Wikipedia contributors. (n.d.). 临沮巨人. In Wikipedia, from https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%B4%E6%B4%AE%E5%B7%A8%E4%BA%BA

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Puigmal

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Tradition / Region: Catalan mythology, Spanish Mythology
Alternate Names: —
Category: Giant, Mountain dweller

The Myth

In the high mountains above the valley of Ribes there once lived a giant named Puigmal.

He towered above the forests and peaks, a mighty being who watched over the trees and the wild animals. No hunter could loose an arrow without feeling his presence. No woodcutter could strike a trunk without sensing the mountain’s silent warning. Puigmal guarded nature fiercely, defending it from careless human hands.

One day, as he wandered the slopes, he milked a wild doe and made cheese from her milk. He brought this cheese to a human and offered it as a gift. “As long as you do not eat it all,” he said, “it will grow again and again. You will never hunger, and you will not need to hunt the creatures of these mountains.”

The gift was a covenant: live with restraint, and the mountain would provide endlessly.

But the balance between humans and nature is fragile. In time, the giant was turned to stone, his immense body becoming the very mountain that now bears his name—Puigmal. His stony form rises above the valley still, silent and watchful.

They say he remains there as guardian still, the mountain itself standing as his petrified body, overlooking the forests and animals he once defended.

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Sources

creatures-of-myth.fandom.com contributors. (n.d.). Puigmal. In creatures-of-myth.fandom.com, from https://creatures-of-myth.fandom.com/wiki/Puigmal

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Tepegöz

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Tradition / Region: Azerbaijani and Turkic mythology
Alternate Names: —
Category: Giant

The Myth

Tepegöz is a huge one-eyed giant who dwells in a cave and feeds on humans. When angered, he forces people inside his lair, where none escape alive. His sense of smell is keen, and he can track victims even in darkness.

There is only one way to survive him. A person must hide beneath a sheep’s skin so the giant cannot detect their scent. When the moment comes, Tepegöz can be slain only by driving a sharp sword into his single eye.

Though powerful and terrifying, Tepegöz is slow-witted. Those who rely on cunning rather than strength alone may overcome him, proving that brute force without intelligence is doomed to fall.

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jam-news.net/azerbaijani-demons/