Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 2: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's HandbookBrewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 2: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Allusions; Fiction -- Dictionaries; Literature -- Dictionaries
CARACULIAMBO, the giant that Don Quixote intended should kneel at the
foot of Dulcin´ea.—Cervantes, _Don Quixote_.
CEUS or CŒUS, son of Heaven and Earth. He married Phœbê, and was the
father of Latōna.—_Greek Fable_.
CHALBROTH, the stem of all the giant race.—Rabelais, _Pantagruel_.
CHRISTOPHERUS, or ST. CHRISTOPHER, the giant who carried Christ across a
ford, and was well-nigh borne down with the “child’s” ever-increasing
weight.—_Christian Legend_.
CLYTIOUS, one of the giants who made war upon the gods. Vulcan killed
him with a red-hot iron mace.—_Greek Fable_.
COLBRAND, the Danish giant slain by Guy of Warwick.—_British Fable_.
CORFLAMBO, a giant who was always attended by a dwarf.—Spenser, _Faëry
Queen_, iv. 8.
CORMORAN´, the Cornish giant who fell into a pit twenty feet deep, dug
by Jack and filmed over with a thin layer of grass and gravel.—_Jack the
Giant-killer_.
CORMORANT, a giant discomfited by Sir Brian.—Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, vi.
4.
COULIN, the British giant pursued by Debon, and killed by falling into a
deep chasm.—_British Fable_.
CYCLOPS, giants with only one eye, and that in the middle of the
forhead. They lived in Sicily, and were blacksmiths.—_Greek Fable_.
DESPAIR, of Doubting Castle, who found Christian and Hopeful asleep on
his grounds, and thrust them into a dungeon. He evilly entreated them,
but they made their escape by the key “Promise.”—Bunyan, _Pilgrim’s
Progress_, i.
DONDASCH, a giant contemporary with Seth. “There were giants in the
earth in those days.”—_Oriental Fable_.
ENCEL´ADOS, “most powerful of the giant race.” Overwhelmed under Mount
Etna.—_Greek Fable_.
EPHIALTES (4 _syl_.), a giant who grew nine inches every month.—_Greek
Fable_.
ERIX, son of Goliah [_si_.] and grandson of Atlas. He invented
legerdemain.—Duchat, _Œuvres de Rabelais_ (1711).
EU´RYTOS, one of the giants that made war with the gods. Bacchus killed
him with his thyrsus.—_Greek Fable_.
FERRACUTE, a giant 36 feet in height, with the strength of forty
men.—_Turpin’s Chronicle_.
FERRAGUS, a Portuguese giant.—_Valentine and Orson_.
FIERABRAS, of Alexandria, “the greatest giant that ever walked the
earth.”—_Mediæval Romance_.
FION, son of Comnal, an enormous giant, who could place his feet on two
mountains, and then stoop and drink from a stream in the valley
between.—_Gaelic Legend_.
FIORGWYN, the gigantic father of Frigga.—_Scandinavian Mythology_.
FRACASSUS, father of Ferrăgus, and son of Morgantê.
Primus erat quidam Fracassus prole gigantis,
Cujus stirps olim Morganto venit ab illo.
Qui bacchioconem campanæ ferre solebat,
Cum quo mille hominum colpos fracasset in uno Merlin Cocaius [_i.e._
Théophile Folengo],
_Histoire Macaronique_ (1606).
GABBARA, the father of Goliah [_sic_] of Secondille, and inventor of the
custom of drinking healths.—Duchat, _Œuvres de Rabelais_ (1711).
GALAPAS, the giant slain by King Arthur.—Sir T. Malory, _History of
Prince Arthur_.
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