K54. Two giants. .28.29.32.35.36. (.37.) .40.-.45.
Whenyou meet a giant or snake, a person is afraid of him, but he becomes his friend and asks for help when he fights another giant or snake. The person fulfills the request.
Russians (Arkhangelskaya), Chechens, Georgians, Udmurts, Northern Khanty, Turukhan Evenks, Dolgans, (Nanais), Northern Alaska Inupiat, Copper, Netsilik, Igloolik, Tanaina, Atna, Kuchin, Upper Tanana, Helmet, Inner Tlingit, Hea, Taltan, Tsetsot, Chipewayan, Tlingits, Quarry, Lillouet, Menominee, Eastern Marsh Cree, Mikmak, Malesit, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki, Delaware, Seneca, tuscarora.
Central Europe. Russians (Arkhangelskaya, Pinezhsky district, Truanogorsk vol., village. Ubra, 1925) [a rookie, birthday boy, after drinking wine, is looking for a worthy opponent; a hero appears and asks for help defeat raspberries; carries the young man into an open field, fights raspberry, but cannot win, well done helps; after winning, the hero takes the young man back and warns that he will be hired to serve as a groom for the king, the older grooms dislike him; if they force him to complete difficult tasks, let well done, call him, "I-brother"; well done, goes to the king as a younger groom; the king sees the light overseas, promises half the kingdom, and after his death, the throne to those who find out what it is; the older grooms say that the youngest brags about what he can find out; well done, he calls I-brother, who says that the light is the golden dress of the queen who came out on the porch; the king wants to marry the queen and again, upon the denunciation of the elders the grooms send a good man to her; I-brother takes him to the queen's palace, well done, flies into her room with a mosquito, turns into a man, lies down on the bed, the queen wakes up, takes a sword, well done, turns into a ring on her finger, persuades her to marry; I-brother takes them to the king's state; when the king's offer to marry, the queen asks for a wedding dress from far away seas for with three locks in a box; upon the denunciation of the elder grooms, the king sends the youngest to get a dress; I-brother takes him to the church, turns into a golden doe, people run after him, and well done, enters an empty church and takes the dress; the queen demands a pair of black horses, from under the gray stone, gold bridles; again the king sends the younger groom, I-brother helps: now the real service has come; I-brother sends well done at night to read the psalter ashore; after three waves, when the water reaches his chest and all three candles go out, horses appear and pull him into the sea; well done calling I-brother, he helps to pull the horses to coast; Tsar marries a queen]: Ozarovskaya 2009, No. 28:276-280
Caucasus - Asia Minor. Chechens: Dalgat 1972:275-277 [in the forest, Chopa Borgan went up a bloody river; it flowed from the little finger of the vampal (giant); he cut him to stay awake; asked him to knock down a plane tree on him, when the fog appeared; the BW complied with the request, the fog turned out to be a ferry from the bulls on which the second vampal carried the first's bride; the Vampals began to fight and both died; the bride agreed to go after BW, but he could not whip to her knees (to the shalwar); BW took only the arba and took BW's property], 277-278 [Cesca Solsa saw a bloody river; it was Vampal who beat his head against his sword to stay awake; he asks the SS to knock down his plane tree when another vampal goes to take his wife away; if the first vampal defeats the kidnapper, he will have images of the sun and the month on his back; if asked what it is, he will die; vampal wins , the SS asks if the vampal is dying; the woman is left without a husband, agrees to follow the SS, but he could not reach her waist with a whip]; Georgians [a daughter is born after her son, she has two teeth; the brother spied how the sister gets up, devours the cattle; warns the mother; she does not want to kill her daughter; the brother leaves, gets to the one-eyed maiden; at night, the ram orders to dazzle the deva with a hot skewer, slaughter the sheep, pull on himself in her skin; the devil lets the sheep between his legs, the young man goes out; the devil promises to adopt him; tells him not to herd herds on the mountain of the black maiden; the young man kills the one, his deva is grateful; the same with the red devil; with the eagle; she asks to give birth to her; the young man hides the male; the eagle gives him both eagles; the young man comes home, sees his sister holding her parents' heads in her hands; she gnaws off her brother's horse in turn, who agrees that he came in three-, two-, one-, legless, came on foot; the sister goes to sharpen his teeth; the mouse wakes up his brother, talks about danger; he leaves a stone in bed, a bag of ash above him, climbs on poplar; sister cleans her eyes of ash, gnaws poplar; Fox offers to throw off the young man, touches the poplar with a branch, the gnawed one overgrows; the same with the Bear; the young man calls eagles, they eat the cannibal; three drops blood falls on the leaf, the leaf says that the young man will regret taking it and regret not taking it; the young man hides it in his bosom, his side dries up; merchants offer to guess what they have in their chests; the young man does not guess, he must give his eagles; the sheet says that in one cotton wool, the other is beautiful; the young man catches up with merchants, gets chests and eagles, marries a beautiful woman]: Kurdovanidze 1988, No. 46:182-187 .
Volga - Perm. Udmurts [the poor man went to recruit as a soldier, met a goblin, he called to him; asked for help fight the water; the man hit with a water stick, the goblin won; grateful to the man; sent him home on his horse, telling him to be sent back later, turning his head to the forest; the man became rich]: Wichmann 1901, No. 30:127-128.
Western Siberia. Northern Khanty (village. Summer Kiev on the Ob) [the fisherman sees a black cloud flying over the Ob; it is the giant Areh-Lung who stole the wife of another A.-L.; he comes and asks where the kidnapper went; the man points out; the land trembles when the giants fight; the second A.-L. returns with his wife, thanks the man for his help, tearing off a piece of his shirt and throwing him into the boat; thanks to this matter, the man became rich]: Kulemzin, Lukina 1978, No. 162:159 (=Lukina 1990, No. 78 [Arykh-hole - "ancient spirit"]: 202-203).
Eastern Siberia. Turukhansky Evenks (Vodozima River, upper reaches of Podkamennaya Tunguska, western 1921) [the serpent cordoned off the tail of seven hunters; six ran away, the seventh Serpent showed signs to sit on his back; took him to where the other serpent was; the snakes were fighting, the man who brought the man weakens; the man with a palm tree ripped another snake's belly, the first one won; took the man back]: Osharov 1936a: 27-31; Dolgans (Samoyed tundra, western 1930) [three rich brothers migrate, leaving two old men and their son, poor brother, to die of hunger; at night, a large multi-legged caterpillar surrounds the plague in a ring; the old man tells her that they can only give it to her a son and a horn; the caterpillar grabs the son with its mouth, takes him to the sky; at the edge of the sky it releases, everything is like on the ground; when the caterpillar lies on its stomach, it is night around, when it is dawn on its side, when it shows its stomach - day; one day a black caterpillar arrives, they fight, the black one prevails, the boy hits it with a horn, it becomes light; the fire-bellied caterpillar returns the young man to the old; explains that the black one wanted to eat it for shining people every morning, wanting it to be night; giving deer, flying to heaven]: Osharov 1936a: 77-80.
(Wed. Amur - Sakhalin. The Nanais [Margo enters the forest hut, there is a baby in the cradle; he screams, scratches; M. tells him to come to him; M.'s house is on a rock above the blood river; after M. leaves, the baby gets up, comes to M.'s house; M.'s wife tells me to go to her giant mother Maiza-mama, where the bed is quite large; M.-M. waited for him to lie in the cradle for 30 years; after sucking her chest, the baby becomes the hero of Alhoo; M.'s wife tells A. that M. is caught in the net of giant Moohan, who roasts him over the fire; she sends A. to the giant in the iron bird; tells him not to sit on the tops of trees; A. tears the iron net into which he falls two ducks; these are two shamans; A. decides to spend the night on the top of a tree, falls into the giant's net; he wants to hack him, but misses, cutting the net; A. splits his head with his iron beak; from The defender spirit (Juli) comes out of the fire, reproaches A. that he did not listen to M.'s wife, lost time; he himself flies in an iron bird to save M.; A. swims salmon under the ice to the giant's village, frees aged M., kills residents; a gadfly to a tree with bones under which bones; Dergeri arrives, carrying her kidnapped sister Ker-Alda; A. saves her, but D. flies away; A. flies into the old woman's house, lies down with her , in the morning she is a young beauty; A. arrives at D.'s house, kills him and one of his three daughters; kills giant Gochenda, who fought the smaller giant Nandada and would soon kill him; marries daughter N. ; flies to the girl Dienda rescued from the clutches of Dergeri, marries her; with her brother Kichalda kills two of the three giants who killed his father; the soul of the third in a special object, A.'s first wife finds him in the form of a duck, brings him, A. kills a giant; A. and K. marries his daughters; kills several more giants, takes more wives; now he is a great shaman]: Lopatin 1933, No. 1:202-210).
The Arctic. Northern Alaska Inupiate: Hall 1975, No. PM152 (Noatak) [a woman travels alone, comes to a man; his pants in his groin are wiped to holes every day; she finds the corpses of her former wives, theirs the genitals are bloody; the woman prepares for copulation, pushes the person away, he falls on a wooden bed, the penis pierces a tree, the woman runs away; comes to another husband, he is kind; sharpens Oolu, asks his new wife to kill a woman who comes to beat him every year; when she comes in, the new wife kills her by slashing her neck]: 383-384; Jenness 1924, No. 36 (Point Hope) [man drops a piece on a giant ice, he thinks a snowflake; brings him to his house; gives a piece of copper tesla, asks him to shout that the son of two giantesses has only one tooth; giantesses jump out, ask who screamed; a man beats each on the heel, both killed; in their home, a giant kills their old son; a man hits the heel and a giant, thereby exterminating them all]: 66-67; Ostermann 1952 (Kotzebue) [four brothers disappear one by one others; conceiving a fifth son, their father allows sparks to fall into his wife's vagina before copulation; tells the boy to swallow hot stones, making him invulnertoq; a young man named Qajartuarungnertoq travels, meets many strange people; meets a giant for whom a year is a day; two giant wives fight for the right to lie down first with him; a giant asks a young man to cut women's tendons to calm them down; after three years (=days), the hero leaves the giant]: 237-239; copper: Jenness 1924, No. 79 [the giant adopts a person, goes fishing with him; another giant catches higher on the cliff; mocks the former, saying that a squirrel with teeth caught two toothy (i.e. two fish); the first tells a man to stab the other when he drags him down the cliff; the man kills the second giant]: 83; Rasmussen 1932:218-219 [(excerpt from the same story?) ; the giant adopts a boy; asks to wake him up with a stone on the head if a bear comes; the first time it's a lemming; next time the boy sees a mountain; it's a real bear, the giant kills him], 258-259 [man is a giant's adopted son; a giant meets another with two teeth, he catches salmon; giants fight; a man helps his adoptive father by striking at his opponent's veins; the first giant kills the second]; netsilic (Pally Bay) [the giant Inugpasugsuk adopts a young man; they come to the frozen lake, where another giant, Inuaruvligasugsuk, is fishing; he has two teeth; giants fight; a young man helps kill the second and then his wife, cutting their tendons on their legs; their little son rises to heaven, turns into Sila (Narsuk) - the owner of bad weather, snow, rain; four women can sit side by side on his penis; the winds come when he unleashes the belt with which his fur diapers are pulled; someday he will kick down the pillars of the world]: Rasmussen 1935 [short version]: 182-183; Rasmussen 1931:229-231; igloolik (Repulse Bay) [the giant took a man as his adopted son; sees another man catching beluga whales in the forest, refuses to share prey; they fight, the first giant asks the man to cut the other's strings; he hardly does it; the wife of the second giant comes, the same with her; the first giant asks the person to wake him up if a polar bear will appear; you have to hit him on the head with a stone if he does not wake up - bigger; the person does so; when he wakes up, the giant laughs, calls the bear a fox; next time he comes The bear is monstrous in size; the giant is scared, but runs after the bear, hiding the man in the hole in his shoe]: Spalding 1979:74-75.
Subarctic. Tanaina [Kuzhagaken travels; a friendly giant carries him in his pocket, asking him to hit his ice-hole fishing enemy with a stone; the enemy dies; when a giant sits by the fire, K. shoots him in the back; the giant complains of sparks, then dies; K. continues his journey]: Tenenbaum 1984:73-83; atna [the boy climbed into the hole for a porcupine; the giant Nigi Giidzi asks to get out and help defeat the giant; she will come from the north; when she knocks him down, let her cut her tendons on her heel; the boy did so, the giant killed the giantess, everyone is happy]: Billum 1979:12-13 (quail in Smelcer 1997:97-98); Kuchin: Perry, Pope 1976 [the giant is fishing by the ice-hole; Vasaagihdzak asks why he is trembling; the giant replies he is afraid of another veikan; V. promises to help; when another chased the first one, shot him under his arm; at the request of the giant, he climbed under his shirt, shot his lice; they were the size of a dog]: 13-25; McKennan 1965 [one giant asks Jateaquoint help him defeat another; D. hides in a cave, but is forced to agree when the giant blocks the exit with a bunch of his excrement; the giant carries him under his clothes under his arm; during the battle, J. . cuts the enemy of the first giant, who is killed; J. remains alone with the victor's wife; says he wants something; she offers him a drill, paint, knife, etc.; finally understands; during copulation her vagina swallows J.; giant Goath jumps up and shakes him out of herself]: 107-108; upper tanana: McKennan 1959 [giant Goath kills giant Yatko's family; man -Chickady hides from Y. in a porcupine hole; agrees to help I. when he threatens to block the exit with his excrement; moose for Y. rabbits; Chickady becomes a friend of I.; giants fight, Chickady cuts G.'s tendons; the same episode with his wife G.; after killing the giantess, I copulates with her; Chickady almost drowns in a stream of sperm Y.; the lice on my head are muskrat; I shoves the sky away from the ground, there where it is now; Chickady returns home]: 197-199; (cf. Kari 1996 [the hunter climbed into the porcupine hole, the giant Yaachoh blocked the exit with a stone; had to go with him; his family was killed by the giant Gol'; they fight, they look the same, Gol shouts that he is "grandfather" man; Joachoch cut his veins, killed him; got together with his wife, a river flowed out of it, lice like muskrats; Yochi told the man to throw them in his mouth; killed Gol's wife; killed their children by piercing their heads with his finger and sucking their brains; the man took the beaver's tail for himself; the sky is low, Joachoch rubs his head against him, bald; he picked it up (after he got up in the sky, the sky had to move higher up); ants attacked; he {not clearly, a giant or a hunter} cut an ant, so ants have a drooping ass and a narrow waist; the giant gave the man a stick where it would fall, the house to the other side; the hunter comes home, they celebrate it there memorial ceremony]: 47-52); helmet [the sky was low, the Giant raises it; two brothers meet the Giant, hide in a hole; the youngest refuses to go out, the Giant tells her to close; asks the elder help recover a wife kidnapped by another giant; carries him under his arm; kills a huge beaver, a man makes an ax out of his tooth; another giant is fishing; the first tells a man to bark a dog; the other in flees in fear; giants fight; man cuts the enemy's legs with an ax; the Giant kills the enemy; the same episode with the enemy's wife; the Giant also kills the enemy's children; sends the man home, giving a wand, pointing the way, and a bone on which meat always grows; one day the whole sky turns red; a person knows that the Giant is dead; it is raining, these are the Giant's tears]: Teit 1917a, No. 7:445-448; inner tlingits [two brothers and a dog were carried away on an ice floe; they smeared the edges of the ice floe with dog blood to prevent it from splitting; they came to people with tiny mouths, and women rip open their stomachs to remove the baby; the boys widened their mouths so that they could eat properly, taught them how to give birth; the brothers went home, met a giant, hid from him in a cave; he asked for help - another giant took his wife away; threatened to fill the exit with a stone if his brothers did not go with him; the eldest went, the youngest refused, he was overwhelmed in the cave, now his voice is an echo; rabbits for the giant are moose, the boy killed two, the giant was able to eat only one jaw; then the giant killed two moose, for him they were rabbits; the whole tree for the giant was a stick, the muskrat was a louse; the giant made an ax out of the beaver's fangs, gave it to the boy; the other the giant was fishing, the first to kill him; the giant's wife put her breasts over him, they crushed him; the boy cut them off, the giant's wife died; the giant killed twin babies, married the daughter of the first a giant who has just her period; sent the boy home with a stick pointing the way; gave a bear dog, allowed him to kill him with his shoulder blade; in the morning there is always meat on his shoulder blade; the boy returned home]: McClelland 2007 (3), No. 135:610-617; hea [hunter hides in a porcupine hole; giant Enna-Guhini asks him not to be afraid, carries rabbits around his neck; deer for him, spruce straw, rats are lice ; he fights the evil giant I-no-Kfvi Odinsa; a man cuts his penis first with an ax from the fang of a huge beaver, then his tendon on his leg; I. dies, then they kill his wife and children; man goes home, E. gives him his stick; animals (dogs Y.) drive a man into a tree; E. comes to the rescue; the man returns to his parents; one day the sky turns red, which means that E. is dead]: Petitot 1886, No. 12:132-141; taltan [two brothers are hiding in a porcupine hole from the Giant; the eldest does not go out, the Giant fills the entrance with his excrement, they become stony; the porcupine breaks off a new exit; The Giant carries his younger brother in the basket; comes to the Cannibal Giant, pierces his wife's heart with his penis, kills her child; two Giants fight; the young man puts beavers at his feet, those his tendons gnaw through, the angry one falls, is killed; the good man gives the young man a wand that shows the way home, giving him an inexhaustible supply of fat; at home, his older brother finds and swallows this fat; he grows in his stomach, tears apart]: Teit 1921a, No. 69:346-349; tsetsot [two young men went hunting porcupines; saw giant Tsufa; one hid in a cave, T. filled the exit with his excrement; the second brought home, showed his wife; he has a huge penis; mentulam autem suam propter incredibeilem longitudinem ita ferebat ut corpus ejus bis amplexa per adversum, cum hac transfigeret ut extrema pars ex ore ejus exstaret interfecit; the young man wanted to return; T. gave a yellow cedar rod pointing the way; two years later, the rod broke; this meant that T. was dead]: Boas 1896-1897, No. 14:43-44; chipewayan : Birket-Smith 1930 [one giant was fishing on the lake, another started fighting him, knocked him down, he filled the entire lake, the caribou walked through it (without further details)]: 95; Lowie 1912 [giant kills people, takes the boy with him, carries him in a mitten; moose hares for him; the boy teaches him to eat beaver tails; another giant catches fish, they fight; at the decisive moment, the boy cuts a fisherman's tendon with a beaver's tooth; the corpse of the defeated turns into an isthmus; deer migrate along it from the island to the mainland]: 188; Petitot 1886, No. 18 (Lac-Froy) [the man became friends with the giant; he fights another giant; a man cuts the tendon on the enemy's leg with a beaver's tooth; he falls, dies; his spine turns into the Rocky Mountains, the road of deer]: 423.
NW Coast. The Tlingits [a friendly giant asks the boy to throw a club at his enemy; the club cuts off his legs; the boy wants to return home; the giant gives him a stick to point home]: Swanton 1909, No. 57:212-214.
The coast is the Plateau. Quarry [see motive H12; a young man returns from the afterlife; meets a giant, they live together; another giant is fishing in the lake; they fight, the young man cuts his legs with a second ax; the first predicts that if large white and red raindrops fall, the giantess killed him; this is what happened; the young man kills the giant's two wives and his children; comes home, following the instructions of the wand, given to him by the first giant; see motive K27]: Jenness 1934, No. 1:100-104; lillouette [Applumskoch and Schemker are giants; A. kidnaps S.'s wife; cannibal kills boy's father, boy kills boy's father, boy kills with the cannibal's arrow; S. sees this, asks the boy for help; trains him to jump; the boy teases A., he chases him; the boy jumps over the log; it turns into S., he grabs A. by the legs; giants fight, S. asks for help; the boy cuts A. with a knife; one piece disappears, turns into a monster; the boy lives with his old wife Sh.; she puts it in her vagina, then tells him to go to the river to wash; On the way home, the boy is afraid that a monster will catch up with him; he turns into a hazel grouse (fool hen)]: Elliott 1931:172-175.
The Midwest. Menominee [when the cannibal Mowäki u looks into the house, the woman tells the two children that it is their father's uncle; grateful M. helps his imaginary nephew by throwing hot ones stones in the spring; a bear with cubs comes out of boiling water, M. kills bears; the family gives him one of their sons, M. makes him big overnight; another exactly the same giant comes, they they begin to fight; the first M. asks the man for help, he hits the second with a club, M. finishes him off, leaves; in the absence of her husband, another M. comes, kills his wife; every time a person finds him in the house disorder; hides, sees a boy coming out of a log to play with older children; M. threw the woman's uterus into the log, she dried up to the baby inside like skin; the father persuades him to stay; he goes to live with people himself; children come to him, easily kill and revive people]: Skinner, Satterlee 1915, No. II.7:332-337; Eastern Swamp Cree (Winisk River) [young woman has clairvoyant abilities; warns her husband that one day a friendly cannibal giant wihtigo will come to them, he will be her father; vihtigo comes to live with them, the children (seven of them) are accustomed to him; losing weight ; then the woman's husband kills the man, brings whirlwind to eat; he says that a hostile vortex will come soon, at his signal the children must go out and sing; the hostile vihtigo runs around the wigwam seven times, trying to attack a friendly; kids sing, friendly kills hostile; vihtigo has since disappeared]: Bird 2007:141-145.
Northeast. Mikmak: Leland 1968 [husband and wife are not afraid of the cannibal Chyna, but are called a relative; he becomes their friend, carries a man on their shoulders; the Cannibal Ch comes with C., she is more powerful than him; A man gives his friend the horn of a monster; when the cannibal begins to defeat the man, the man pierces this horn into her ear; the man cuts her body to pieces, burns her; her heart melts out of ice too; A man becomes human]: 233-242; Rand 1894, No. 25 [in the forest, a woman meets a Chenoo monster with her lips and shoulders worn; takes care of him like a father, brings him home, dresses him; he cuts for her forest; her husband also calls him father-in-law; C. regurgitates the abomination he used to eat, takes on an increasingly human form; kills two giant lizards, throws garbage into the river, where they turn into ordinary lizards; a woman cooks the brought lizard meat, but only C. eats it; in the spring, C. warns that she will fight another C.; asks the woman to bring his bag containing two dragon horns (horned snake?) , this is a weapon against another C.; during a fight, both C. are as huge as mountains; the enemy prevails, but the man pierces that horn; the corpse is burned, including an icy heart; they swim south, C. weakens, turns into an ordinary old man; dies Catholic; (Quail and commentary in McGee 1975:113-117)]: 190-199; Wallis, Wallis 1955, No. 21 [when the cannibal Djenu enters the house, a woman calls him grandfather; The returning husband is also affectionate to him; J. hears another Genu-woman coming; asks the owner to hit her with a club when he fights her; after winning, he tries to eat, but she is icy; tells her to burn her body] , 24 [as in (21)]: 343, 344-345; malesite [when she approaches the river, a woman notices the ogre giant Kiwakw next to her reflection; calls him father, calls him into the house; manages to warn the person returning from her husband's hunting, who also calls K. father; K. does all the housework; says that a stronger k will come soon, gives a ball; when they fight, a person must shoot it between the eyes of the person who comes to .; after the battle, friendly K. regurgitates pieces of ice, the man throws them into the fire; if he threw the last one, he would die; note: it is possible that the hostile giant is female (in the Algonquin sex not varies)]: Mechling 1914, No. 16:75-77; passamaquoddy [hunting husband; cannibal giant Lewahqu' (Kewoqu) looks into the wigwam; his wife calls him father, warns her husband to call him father-in-law; he helps spouses, hunts for them; says that K.-woman (women-K.) will come to fight him stronger than men); a man spies on the battle, helps his K., together they kill K.-woman; wife the hunter gives K. vomit, he regurgitates his icy heart; it has the shape of a man, he has the evil essence of K.; so three times; the woman manages to melt two hearts in the fire, the third K. swallows back; but he almost cured]: Leland 1968:246-249; Abenaki ['the motive is popular with wabanaka']: Fisher 1946:248 in Wallis, Wallis 1955:343; delaware [woman notices an approaching ogre, she and her husband they hide the baby; the cannibal eats animal meat and fat, falls asleep; ceases to be an ogre after trying a normal meal; insects fall out of his nose; he warns the owners that another cannibal will soon come; when he fights him, the owners must stab him in the ass; that's what happens; new cannibals must come from the north; the hosts go south, join the rest of the Delaware]: Bierhorst 1995, No. 126:59-60; seneca [man brags that he is not afraid to go north to the stone giants; leaves with his wife; a giantess arrives, a woman loses consciousness, a giantess thinks she is dead; a woman jumps into a boat, sails to her husband; a male giant calls out to her husband from the other side; he invites him to wade, the giant goes underwater; at this time the man runs across the log to the other side, assures that while walking under water, the giant turned back; so several times; man gives strength to the flintlock knife, splits the rock in front of his eyes; the frightened giant leaves; one day a giantess comes; says that she quarreled with her husband, asks for help, gives hunting luck; tells her husband to stab burning smut during the fight; the man does so, the giant is killed; the husband and wife return to people; the giantess asks to pick up the abandoned baby; the husband finds him on the swing; playing, the giant child kills other children; at the request of people, the giantess picks him up; "stone giants are ice and frost"]: Curtin 2001:509-511; Tuscarora [young spouses live separately, they have a baby; the Stone Giant (KM) comes, picks up the baby; the woman calls KM the father, assures that the baby is his grandson; CM believes, wants to live with them; a woman teaches her husband to call KM father-in-law; KM gives him his finger, which finds and paralyzes game; the husband hunts successfully; the KM says that his wife will come and start fighting him, let her son-in-law hit her hips with Amur linden bark (seven mallow) every time she falls; giants fight for a long time; blows from bark cause the giant to fall half of her stone cover, she dies ; KM cannot eat cooked food; he is given a potion, he regaps all sorts of rubbish; now he can eat what people, the stone cover falls off him; he is given clothes; all women in the village want him in husbands]: Rudes, Crouse 1987, No. 30:471-489.