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 mythology
- Anakim (Old Testament)
- Gog and Magog
- Goliath (Book of Samuel)
- Nephilim
- Nimrod (Old Testament)
- Og (Book of Numbers)
- Rephaite
Celtic mythology
See also: Celtic mythology
Brythonic mythology
See also: Welsh mythology
See also: Cornish mythology
- Cawr
- Cormoran (Cornwall)
- Kaour
Gaelic mythology
See also: Irish mythology
See also: Scottish mythology
Greek and Roman mythology
See also: Greek mythology and Roman mythology
- Argus Panoptes
- Caca
- Cacus
- Cyclopes
- Arges
- Brontes
- Polyphemus
- Steropes
- Geryon
- Gigantes:
- Hekatonkheires
- Briareus
- Gyges
- Cottu
- Menoetius
- Talos
- Titans:
Hindu mythology
See also: Hindu mythology
Norse mythology
See also: Norse mythology
- Bestla
- Gorm
- Jötunn
- Gríðr
- Gullveig (possibly)
- Gymir
- Hroðr
- Hrungnir
- Hymir
- Járnsaxa
- Kári
- Loki
- Alvaldi
- Rindr
- Skaði
- Suttungr
- Þjazi
- Þrúðgelmir
- Þrymr
- Útgarða-Loki
- Vafþrúðnir
- Ymir/Aurgelmir
Other
- Brobdingnag giant, from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
- Paul Bunyan (American folklore)
- Ferragut (also known as Ferragus, Ferracutus, etc.)
- Hurtaly (Og, Jewish mythology)
- Gandareva
- Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Genie in-and-out giant spirit of the lamp. From Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp, (re-written by Sir Richard Francis Burton) from One Thousand and One Nights or Arabian 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)
- Si-Te-Cah (Paiute)
- St Christopher (Roman Catholic)
- ‘Uj ibn Anaq (Islamic mythology)
- Zipacna (Maya mythology)
- Matsieng
- Ellert and Brammert
See also
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