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Wouter, Wolter is nothing but the human proper name Walter bestowed on a home-sprite. It is between these spirits quite of a piece with the familiar intercourse to have a. Robin is a French-English goodfellow and Nissen god dreng.
Hruodperaht, Ruotperht,. Some dialects use Riipel, Riepel as a name for the tom-cat again in witch-trials a little young devil is named Rubel. Dream n. Of course.
To this latter I am inclined to refer even the words of so early a writer as Ofterdingen, MS. A home-sprite Rudy for Rudolf in Moneys Anz. Another set of names is taken from the noises which these you hear them jumping softly, knock spirits keep up in houses at walls, racketing and tumbling on stairs and in lofts.
At the same time popel is that which muffles puppt itself: about Henneberg, says Reinwald 2, 78, a dark cloud is so called ; it contains the notion 1.
Not only Nielsen, but Nissen is a family name in Denmark, and can only the same, by no means nix or goblin. What the fairy tale says of Rumpelstilt, and how his name has to be guessed, other stories tell of Eisenhutel or Hopfenhiitel who wear an iron hat or one wreathed with hop-leaves , Kletke s Alman.
In that case, vermummen name of the watersprite p. Em ungehiurer uncanny haunted by such a home-sprite. So, to frighten with the butze, to tear off the butze mask ;. Kaisersperg Oberlin ; winterbutz in Brant s Narrenschiff winterbutte in the Plattdeutsch translation b I do.
All over 1, In Bavaria, fasnachtbutz, Shrovetide b. For bans muffle-jack , as popanz is for pop-bans bob-jack , there were likewise blindhans, grobbans, karstbans, scharrbarvs, etc.
About Hanau I have heard the interjection, katzabutza-rola,! Here several meanings branch out of one another first we have a monstrous butz that drags children away, then a tiny butzel, and thence both biitzel and butz-igel -urchin used contemptuously of little deformed creatures.
In like manner but in Low Germ, stands for a squat podgy child butten, verbutten hill :. There is also probably a buttebut more commonly in the contracted form mann, buttmann, bu-man Br. The Dan. The origin of this butze, butte is hard to ascertain I would assume a lost Goth, biuta tundo, pulso , baut, butum, OHG.
Lachmann on Nib. Homesprite and water-sprite meet in this soothsaying wish-granting fish. Jubinal 1, The same with Swiss bodg, St. Irish home-sprites are called Oluricauns Elfenm. In stature, appearance and apparel they come very near to and dwarfs ; legend loves to give them red hair or a red beard, and the pointed red hat is Hutchen rarely missing.
A broad-topped mushroom is in Dan. The Norwegian Nissen is imagined small like a child, but strong, clothed in grey, with a red peaky 2 and carrying a blue light at So they can make cap, night.
Hodeke, Hoidike , the Eisenhiitel take their. Their fairy shoes or boots have been noticed, p. With this walking apparatus and this swiftness there is now and then some animal s form and name Heinze, :. Heinzelmann, polterkater, katermann, boot-cat, squirrel; their shuffling and bustling about the house is paralleled by the nightly turbulence of obstreperous cats.
The Goldemar pp. He played charmingly on the harp, and got rid of much money at dice ; he called Neveling brotherin-law, and often admonished him, he spoke to everybody, and made the clergy blush by discovering their secret sins.
His hands were lean like those of a frog, cold and soft to the grasp ; he would allow himself to be felt, but never to be seen.
After a stay of three years he. Once an inquisitive man having sprinkled ashes and peas to make him fall and to get sight of his footprints, he sprang upon him as he was lighting the fire, and chopped him up into pieces, which he stuck on a spit and roasted, but the head and legs he thought proper to boil. The dishes, when ready, were carried to Vollmar s chamber, and one could hear them being consumed with cries of joy. After this, no more was heard accounts call :.
To this connexion of home- sprites with tree-worship we shall have to return :. Both spit and gridiron were long preserved, till living at once.
The home-sprite s parting sounds particularly ancient, and the grim savagery of prophecy Sam. Meiger says of the wolterhis wrath is heathen all over. Se vinden sik gemeinichlich in den hiiseren, dar ein god vorrad store van alien din gen is. Dar scholen se sik bedensthaftigen obsequious anstellen, waschen in der koken up, boten kens :. Men kan se des. He curries the horses, combs out their 3 manes, lays fodder before the cattle, 4 draws water from the well.
For the maids he makes up fire, rinses out the dishes, cleaves and carries wood, sweeps and scrubs. His presence brings prosperity to the house, his departure removes it. He is like the helpful earth-mannikins who lend a hand in field labour p. At the same time he oversees the management of the house, that everything be done orderly ; lazy and careless workers get into trouble with him as with Holla and Berhta, pp. In Wales the people believe that goats have their beards combed out everv Fridav night by the elves Croker 3, Agemund in the Eeinardus 4, seems to me no other than a housedaemon, distorted and exaggerated by the poet, disturbing the maid in her sleep, her milking and churning see Suppl.
That is probably why one Swiss goblin bears the name Napfhans, Potjack. But ;. Those who desire his goodwill, give him good words kiare accordingly to :. The Nissen loves the moonlight, and in wintertime you see him merrily skipping across the farmyard, or skating. He is a good hand at dancing and music, and much the same is told of him as of the Swedish stromkarl p. The hat and cap he has in common with dwarfs and therefore also the power to make himself invisible.
Petronius Satir. Unless Wilse Beskriv. Wilse, and Faye, pp. In Calderon s Darna duende the little goblin wears a large hat. Swedish tomte i garden looks like a year-old child, but :. He shews himself at has an old knowing face under his red cap. From that time pros who had despised him, and went over to perity forsook the man The farmer who respected the busy tomte and his neighbour.
Many Christians still believe in such home-sprites, and present them an offering every year, pay them their wage as they call it. Yule, and consists of grey cloth, tobacco and a shovelful of earth, Afzelius 2, Ages also loved bells [schellen ; and schellenkappe is Germ, for cap and bells] The bells on the dress of a fool still.
He loves to play merry pranks, and when he has accomplished hence that one, he is fain to laugh himself double for delight and chuckling. But also when he sulks, goblin laughter p. A farmer set fire men documentorurn 2. Westphal s Speci ineditorum, Kostock , pp.
Scott s Minstrelsy I. Some thoroughly good goblin stories are in. There are also goblins who, like nix and watersprite, are engaged in no man s service, but live independently ; when such a one is caught, he will offer you gifts or tell your fortune, to be set at liberty again. The agreement was drawn up, and even signed, when the master observed that Isk rzycki had horse s feet, and gave him notice of withdrawal.
But the servant stood on his rights, and declared his intention of serving his master whether he would or no. He lived invisible by the fireplace, did all the tasks assigned him, and by degrees they got used to him but at last the lady pressed her husband to move, and he arranged to take another estate. The family all set out from the mansion, and had got through the better part of the way, when, the log-road being out of Suddenly repair, the carriage threatens to upset, and the lady cries out in alarm.
The masters then perceiving that they could not shake him off, turned back to their old house, and lived at peace with the servant until his term expired. In one thing however he resembles the home-sprite, that he will not leave his owner, and even when thrown away he always comes back again, unless indeed he be sold [orig. The last purchaser has to keep him.
With ref. Borner s Orlagau, Whoever has the kobold must not wash or comb himself Sommer p. As with Holle and Berhte, so people goddesses So it. Comedies facecieuses de Pierre de 1 Arivey, champenois, Lyon Kouen, , p. Presbyteris autem letanias agentibus et aquam benedictam spargentibus inimicus lapides jact:.
Tandem aliquando conquiescens confessus est se, quando aqua spargebatur, sub capa talis sacerdotis quasi familiaris sui latuisse, accusans eum quod cum filia procuratoris in peccaium lapsus fuerit. The Christmas sometimes present the Saviour with His usual attendant plays Peter, or else with Niclas, at other times however Mary with Gabriel, or with her.
Hieronymus, but how to ex the Swiss Schmutzli Staid. Further, the Swedish jullekar, Dan. Ages, shows what an essential wihtels and tatermans formerly were, how ineradi part of it the The cable the elvish figures and characters of heathenism.
Greeks enlivened the seriousness of their tragedy by satyric similar to our sea-sprite p. Proteus, played a leading part. There is yet another way in which a former connexion between wise-women and these genii now and then comes to light.
Goblins, we may presume, ac the manifestation of certain deities among men, as companied. Foreknowledge of the future, the gift of prophecy, was proper to most genii ; their inexhaust ible cheerfulness stands.
They frightened children with sooty Cyclops, and ace. They feel themselves drawn to men, and repelled by them. The downfall of heathenism must have wrought great changes in the old-established relationship the spirits acquired a new and terrible aspect as ministers and :. GrendePs giant,, especially woodsprites. Not so with the females however the wild women and female nixes drop into savours of the :.
Through the whole existence of elves, nixes, and goblins there runs a low under-current of the unsatisfied, disconsolate they do not rightly know how to turn their glorious gifts to account, :. Not only do they seek to renovate their race by intermarriage with mankind, they also need the counsel and assistance of men in their affairs. Though acquainted in a higher degree than men with the hidden virtues of stones and herbs, they yet invoke human aid for their sick.
Hence too doubting whether they can be partakers of salvation, and unconcealed grief when a negative answer is given. By so much of bodily size and as man surpasses the elf or dwarf, he falls short of the strength giant on the other hand, the race of elves and dwarfs has a livelier intellect and subtler sense than that of men, and in these The rude coarse points again the giants fall far below mankind.
To man has been allotted a happy mean, which raises him above the giant s intractableness and the dwarf s cunning, and betwixt The giant both does and suffers the two he stands victorious. The abrupt ness of these gradations is a good deal softened down by the giants or dwarfs forming frequent alliances with men, affording clear evidence that ancient fiction does not favour steep contrasts the very earliest giants have sense and judgment ascribed to :. There is a number of ancient terms corresponding in sense to 2 our present word riese giant.
Scot, ettyn, eten, Lye sub v. Moser nos. And what is more, the word must have lived on in later times, down to the latest, for I find the fern, eteninne oldest pi. Westphalia a certain terrible female with whom they is called etheninne?
I have no doubt it is in conjecturing. Uans, having for root the ON. One thing p. Johann Laurenberg, a Eostock man, b. The first ed. Westphal, De consuetudine ex sacco et libro, Eost. Gautar , though at 4, 16 it more correctly gives Eotaland for Jutorum terra, and the Sax.
Possibly there was beside iotunn, also an 2 that would explain the present ezal edax ; jotul, jutul,. Our second term is likewise one that suggests the name of The ON. Instead of? Crrimm On the runes, p. Lahn, is still called Ksselswerd. Isidore s glosses render the Gallic name of a people ambro by devorator, which with the OHG. Hickes Gramm. The passage already given from the Cod. And we find an p. Dis, Ditis Schm. The Latin poem of Wilten monastery in Tyrol, which relates the story of the giant Haimo, names another giant fable,!
Forte habitabat in his alius truculentior oris Cyclops, qui dictus nomine Thy r sis erat, erat dictus, Seveldia rura colebat. Nor does it seem much more hazardous to explain Strabo s. Tirschenreit, Tirschengereith. Schmeller s birthplace in the Up. Pala So Tiirschenwald, Thyrsentritt, Tiiratwinkel, et. Pharaildis, Verelde, p.
Thorsholt, TJiosholt, the name of a place in Oldenburg-, connected with j? In Gothic the word to. The Goth. So that ;. Now, as the Jutes, a Teutonic race, retained the name of the former inhabitants whom they had expelled, 1 these latter being. I have already hinted p. Tusci, Etrusci the consonant-changes are the very be expected, and even the assimilations and the Niebuhr makes transposition of the r are all found reproduced. There is even a third mode of designating giants in which we.
Grot as en liilne Schiiren s Teutonista couples rese expresses gigantic stature. Even H. Germ, writers of the 16th-l 7th centuries, though seldomer, use heune ; Mathesius heune ; the Vocab. But MHG. Hiunen signifying, without any reference to bodily size, a Hun garian, in the Nibelunge a subject of Etzel or Attila , 4.
Hunus, Chunus. Hunt, 3 gen. Hunio, Huneo, with which many names of places are com pounded, e. Huniofeld, a little town in Fulda bishopric, now I. Huna cyning Beda 1, 13 requires a sing. Hun; but to the ON. Hunar there is said Hiinfeld; also rat,. Huni Gl. It is plain Huni have a sense that shifts about pretty much with time place,. Hiunenlantof the 13fch century Nib. At the time when proper names like Hunrat, Hunperht first arose, there could hardly as yet be any thought of an actual neighbouring nation like Pannonians or Wends ; but even in the earliest times there might circulate talk and tale of a primitive race supposed to inhabit some mythic uncertain region,.
Gotfried used hiune for giant, he must have known that Hiune meant a Hungarian; and as little does the distinctness of the nationality rendered Hiini in OHG. It may have been vivider or fainter in this place or that thus, the ON. I will not touch upon the root here conf.
One AS. The poets like to use the word, where ancient buildings and works are spoken of: ent a geweorc, enta work of rergeweorc eald at that time also :.
So the adj. They say both enterisch Schm. And was the Enzenlerc, MS. If ? Hunt alluded to Wends and Slavs, we may be allowed to identify s with the ancient Antes; as for the Indians, whom Hone is.
Span, gigante, Prov. It is wanting in the other Teut. Our riese is the OHG. To these would correspond rise,. The Anglo-Saxons seem to have had no analogous ivrisa, as they confine themselves to J?
Again, lubbe, lubbe seems in parts of Lower Saxony to mean 1 Strange that the Latin language has no word of its own for giant, but must borrow the Greek gigas, titan, cyclops yet Italy has indigenous folk-tales of Campanian giants.
Ages traced the giants to Cain, or at least to mixture with his family gigantes, quales propter iracundiam Dei per filios Seth dejiliabus Cain narrat scriptura procreates, Pertz 2, For in Genesis 6, 4 it is said gigantes autem erant super terram in diebus illis postquam enim ingressi sunt filii Dei ad filias hominum, illfeque genuerunt, isti sunt potentes a seculo viri The same view appears in Caedm.
Or Slav, vred-iti, to hurt, AS. A Russ. Gebhard of. Halberstadt, bewailing as late as the heathenish worship of a being whom men named den guden lubben, to whom they offered. This seems to several. Troll neut. By trold the Danish folk-tales understand beings of the elf kind. Giant is in Lith. South Slavs, and seems to be simply Avarus, Abarus. Schlozer 2, TIZ T! Blanc is acaUed la standing on a hat iant on tombe du bon 1. The Sanskrit rdkshasas can have nothing to do with our riese, nor with the OHG.
Greeks, they were as tall as poplars, and According if. The one eye of the Greek cyclops I nowhere find 2 imputed to our giants ; but like them and the ancient gods, p. Wahtelmsere names denkm. In Ssem. Brana s father has three invisible heads, Fornald. The giant in the Hebrewhas only an additional finger or toe given to each hand and foot vir fuit story excelsus, qui senos in manibus pedibusque habebat digitos, i.
Trolds with 12 heads, a tviJiofffaffr iotunn. In 15 occur in Norsk e event, nos. The fairy-tale of mentions the history of reid etin. Red etin wi three heads may now be read complete in Chambers, 1 pp. Hrungnir, a giant in the Edda, has a head of stone Seem. GeroY, whose gleaming arms, as she shuts the house-door, make air and water. In the giants as a whole, an untamed natural force has full swing, entailing their excessive bodily size, their overbearing in solence, that is to say, abuse of corporal finally.
Dumm in our old speech was this it is. A remarkable spell of the llth cent, runs tumbo saz in berke mit tumbemo kinde in arme, tamb hiez der berc, tumb hiez daz der heilego tumbo versegene tisa kint, wunda i.
They stand as specimens of a fallen or falling race, which with the strength combines also the innocence and wisdom of the old world, an intelligence more objective and imparted at creation than self-acquired. Hymir is called forn iotunn the old 54 , as in Theocr. Oegir is called Saem. How if the MHU. That would explain why there is no trace of the crepusculum, ; ;. Such a being, when at rest, is good-humoured and unhandy, 1 but when provoked, gets wild, spiteful and violent. Witolt or Witolf :.
One Norse giant, whose story was named Beli the bellower ; him imperfectly, Freyr struck dead with his fist for want of his sword, and thence Roth. Their relation to gods and men is by turns friendly and hostile. Idtunheimr lies far from Asaheimr, yet visits are paid on both sides. It is in this connexion that they sometimes leave on us the impression of older nature-gods, who had to give way to a younger and superior race ; it is only natural therefore, that in certain giants, like Ecke and Fasolt, we should recognise a pre At other times a rebellious spirit breaks forth, cipitate of deity.
Yet there. GunnloS a giantess is OSin s be loved. The asin Gefiun bears sons to a giant; Borr weds the are :. The gods associate with Oegir the iotunn, and by him Giants again sue for asms, as Thrymr are bidden to a banquet. Hrungnir asks for Freyja or in Sif, s.
Oiaf too keeps up a hot pursuit of the giant race ; Suppl. In our in this business heathen and Christian heroes are at one. Niblunc and Schilbunc had twelve strong giants for friends Nib. But, like the primal woods and monstrous beasts of the olden time, the giants do get gradually extirpated off the face of the earth, and with all heroes giant-fighting alternates with dragon-fighting. Managold, Manigold frequently occurs as a man s and is to be explained from mani, ON.
Ostergotland 4, Welsh origin, that hero s deeds might remind us of Thor s; he is equipped with a cap of darkness, shoes of swiftness, and a sword that cuts through anything, as the god is with the resistless hammer. Ymir, or in giant s language Orgelinir, was the first-created, and out of his body s enormous bulk were afterwards engendered Ymir himself originated in earth, water, mountain and wood. At the same time the derivation from ymja, umSi stridere lies invitingly near, so that Ymir would be the blustering, noisy, and one explanation of Orgelrnir would agree with this; conf.
Herbs and heavenly bodies are named after giants as well grime, fuligo, Yinir as after gods pursaskegg, i. Two lays of the Giants, like dwarfs, shew themselves thievish. Edda turn upon the recovery of a hammer and a cauldron which they had stolen. The giants form a separate people, which no doubt split into as a ;. Rask s Afhand. Thrymr is called fiursa drottinn, Saem.
Even our poem of Rother speaks of a riesenlant. On the borders of the giant province were situate the griottuna garffar, Sn. We have already noticed how most of the words for coin giant cide with the. Out of this connexion with mountains arises another set of names: bergrisi, Sn. ThrymIt is not to be over heirnr lies up in the mountains, Sn. Proper names of giants point to stones and metals, as larnsaxa Stones and rocks are weapons of the giant race ; they use only stone clubs and stone shields, no swords.
Hrungni s weapon is. Later legends add to their armament stahelstangen steel called hei i hone collision with ;. Ancient buildings of singular structure, which have outlasted many centuries, and such as the men of to-day no longer take in in Beow. And Karlmeinet 35 f we dise burg stichte?
French poems it is either gaiant or paian pagans that build walls and towers, e. Goliath too, 1 Sam. Niebuhr s Bom. An ancient wall is in Mod. Die roke was swert ende eiselike, want wilen er en gigant, hie hieu hare ane enen cant en padelMn tote in den top, daer en mach ghen paert op,. Schonen on the Swedish side ; she gets over safely with a few that she has taken in her apron, but the next time she carries ofi too large a piece, her apron-string breaks in the middle of the sea, she.
Pomeranian traditions present dif a giant in the Isle of Riigen grudges having ferences in detail to wade through the sea every time to Pomerania; he will build a causeway across to the mainland, so, tying an apron round him, he fills it with earth. When he has got past Eodenkirchen with :. This dorper grot again we are tempted to take for the old thundergod, for hi hilt van stale of steel enen hamer in sine hant. Rugen and Pomerania, which so exasperates the giant that he is struck with apoplexy and dies, and his dam has never been completed E.
Arndt s Marchen 1, Her mother looked over the wood Naughty child, what are you after? The daughter was so frightened she let the apron slip out of her hands, the sand was all spilt about, and formed the barren hills by Litzow. A giant in Fladsoe was on bad terms with one that lived at Nestved. He took his wallet to the beach and filled it with sand, intending to bury all Nestved. Not till he came to the spot where Husvald then stood, did the giant notice that the greater part was spilt ; in a rage he flung the remainder toward Nestved, where you may still see one sand bank by itself Thiele 1, 79 At Sonnerup lived another giant, Lars Krands by name, whom a farmer of that place had offended.
He went to the shore, filled his glove with sand, took it to the farmer s and emptied it, so that the farmhouse and yard were rise to the string of.
And these tales are not only spread through the Teutonic. Pajilnde in Hattulasocken of Tawastoland there stand some rocks which are said to have been carried by giant s daughters in their. French traditions put the holy Virgin or fays p.
Notre dame de Clery, being ill at ease in the tion,. In the Charente country, arrond. Cognac, cornm. According to a Greek legend, Athena was fetching a mountain from Pallene to fortify the Acropolis, but, startled at the ill news. Gossfelden and Wetter there was once a village that has now disappeared, Elbringhausen ; the farmers in it lived so luxuriously that the devil got power over them, and resolved to shift them flat which is flooded every year So he took the village up in his basket, and carried it through the air to where Sarenau stands he began picking out the houses one by one, and setting them up side by side by some accident the basket tipped over, and the whole lot tumbled pellmell on the ground so it came about, that the first six houses at Sarenau stand in a straight row, and all the others anyhow.
Near Saalfeld in Thuringia lies a village, Langenschade, numbering but 54 houses, and yet a couple of miles long, because they stand scattered and in single file. On looking back, he noticed it and cried there s a pity schade see Suppl. The pretty fable of the giant s daughter picking up the plough.
In forest-castle by waterfall the barons there were giants once the maiden comes down into the ;. She looks at the thing a while, geht the plough, the horses, the men are new to her she goes thereto ;.
Der ritter sitzt just noch am tisch min kind, was bringste mit? The baron sits just then at table my child, what bringst with thee :. The maiden cries, the father scolds. I will have no grumbling pack it all up softly again and carry it to the same place where thou tookst it from.
Tills not the farmer his field, we are short of bread and money ;. Harz and the Odenwald are given In Hesse the giant s daughter is placed on the Hippersberg betw. Kolbe, Wehrda and Gossher father rates her soundly, and sets the ploughman felden at liberty again with commendations. The same story is told at Dittersdorf near Blankenburg betw. Eudolstadt and Saalfeld. Again, a hiinin with her daughter dwelt on Hiinenkoppe at the entrance of the Black Forest.
The daughter found a peasant. The mother angrily bade her carry man, pussy-cats. Now sentiments like these savour more of antiquity than reasons of the Alsatian giant, and they harmonize with! I believe this. Not less popular or naive is the story of the giant on a journey being troubled with a little stone in his shoe : when at last he shakes it out, there is a rock or hill left on the ground.
In the valley above Ilfeld, close to the Blihr, stands a huge mass of rock, which a giant once shook out of his shoe, because the grain of sand galled him. I am confident this myth also has a wide circulation, it has even come to be related of a mere set out.
Norwegian folk-tale is given by Hammerich om Ragnaroksmythen, p. It was a fir-cone, which the giant felt between his fingers, and said who d have thought a little thing like that would hurt you so? Skrymir goes to sleep under an oak, and snores when Thorr with his hammer strikes him on the head, he wakes up and asks if a leaf has The giant lies down under another fallen on him.
He falls asleep a third time, and Thorr repeats :. These are touches of genuine gianthood, and are to be met with in quite different regions as well. Bohemian story makes the giant Scharmak sleep under a tower, which his enemies undermine, so that it tumbles about his ears ; he shakes himself up and cries this is a bad place to rest in, the birds drop things on your head. After that, three men drag a large bell up the oaktree under which Scharmak is asleep, snoring so hard that the leaves shake; the bell is cut down, and comes crashing on the giant, but he does not even wake.
German nursery-tale 1, has something very similar; in another one, millstones are dropt on a giant in the well, and he calls out, drive those hens away, they scratch the sand up there, and make the grains come in my eyes 2, 29 1 -.
I also find in a Norwegian vessel folk-tale Faye, p. Christopher, taxed the resources of ten wetnurses, stands with each foot on a high mountain, and stooping down drinks up the river that runs between Conf. Valence Prom the latter I borrow what stands in the text. Westphalian legend of the Weser has much the On the E. Soiling, near Mt. Eberstein, stands :. When the hiine who dwelt there of old wanted to wash his face of a morning, he would plant one foot on his own hill, and with the other stride over to the Eichholz a mile and a half away, and.
If his neck ached with stooping and was like to break, he stretched one arm over the Burgberg and laid hold of Lobach, Negenborn and Holenberg to support himself. Ostergotland 2, The first of the two names is apparently the ON. German folktales make such giants throw stone hammers and axes to each other Deut. When the Eberstein hime was going to work, he shouted across to Homburg four miles off, and his friend immediately threw the axe over ; and the contrary, when the axe happened to be on the Eberstein.
The same thing is told in a tradition, likewise West of the hiines on the Hiinenkeller and the Porta throwing phalian, their one hatchet. Good neighbours too were the giants on Weissenstein and Remberg in Upper Hesse ; they had a baking -oven in common, that stood midway in the field, and when one was kneading his dough, he threw a stone over as a sign that wood was to be fetched from his neighbour s fort to heat the oven.
Once they both happened to be throwing at the 1. Another way of was for the giant to scratch his body, which was done signalling so loud that the other heard it distinctly. The three very ancient chapels by Sachsenheim, Oberwittighausen and Griinfeldhausen were built by giants, who fetched the great heavy stones in their aprons.
It came to the ground five miles off, and there was erected the second church, on completing which the giant flung the hammer once more, and where it fell, at the same distance of five miles, he built the third In the one at chapel. Sachsenheim a huge rib of the builder is preserved Mone s Anz. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.
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