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The Book of the Friendly Giants

Pamela Colman Smith

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In Defense of Giants

Somehow or other, the giants seem to have got a bad name. No sooner is the word ''giant" mentioned than some one is sure to shrug his shoulders and speak in a meaning tone of " Jack and the Beanstalk." Now, this is not only unkind, bui. on the giants' part, quite undeserved. For, as everybody who is intimate with them knows, there are very few of the Beanstalk variety.

No self-respecting giant would any more think of threatening a little boy, or of grinding up people's bones to make flour, than would a good fairy godmother. Giants' dispositions are in proportion to the size of their bodies, and so when they are good, as most of them are,

In Defense of Giants

they are the kindest-hearted folk in the world, and like nothing better than helping human beings out of scrapes.

The trouble is that many of the stories were written by people who do not really know the giants at all, but are so afraid of them as to suppose that giants must be cruel just because they are big. Every one else has taken it for granted that the giants were big enough to take care of themselves, and so nobody has bothered to look into the facts of the case. Mr. Andrew Lang has given us a Vv^hole rainbow of books about the fairies, but no one seems ever to have written down the whole history of the giants.

This is a pity, particularly since a great many people have had a chance to know the giants intimately. For in the old days the giants used to live all over the world— in Germany, and Ireland, and Norway, and even here in our own country. And since they have moved back into a land of their own, they have sometimes come into other countries on..a. visit, and a brave Englishman, as you will see, once went to visit them.

The history of the giants is as simple as their good-natured lives. Air the giants came originally from one big giant family. And wherever they went, they kept the same giant ways, and enjoyed playing the same big, clumsy jokes on each other.
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Language: English

Pages: 344

Format: Paperback

The Book of the Friendly Giants

Pamela Colman Smith

4/5 ( ratings)

--
In Defense of Giants

Somehow or other, the giants seem to have got a bad name. No sooner is the word ''giant" mentioned than some one is sure to shrug his shoulders and speak in a meaning tone of " Jack and the Beanstalk." Now, this is not only unkind, bui. on the giants' part, quite undeserved. For, as everybody who is intimate with them knows, there are very few of the Beanstalk variety.

No self-respecting giant would any more think of threatening a little boy, or of grinding up people's bones to make flour, than would a good fairy godmother. Giants' dispositions are in proportion to the size of their bodies, and so when they are good, as most of them are,

In Defense of Giants

they are the kindest-hearted folk in the world, and like nothing better than helping human beings out of scrapes.

The trouble is that many of the stories were written by people who do not really know the giants at all, but are so afraid of them as to suppose that giants must be cruel just because they are big. Every one else has taken it for granted that the giants were big enough to take care of themselves, and so nobody has bothered to look into the facts of the case. Mr. Andrew Lang has given us a Vv^hole rainbow of books about the fairies, but no one seems ever to have written down the whole history of the giants.

This is a pity, particularly since a great many people have had a chance to know the giants intimately. For in the old days the giants used to live all over the world— in Germany, and Ireland, and Norway, and even here in our own country. And since they have moved back into a land of their own, they have sometimes come into other countries on..a. visit, and a brave Englishman, as you will see, once went to visit them.

The history of the giants is as simple as their good-natured lives. Air the giants came originally from one big giant family. And wherever they went, they kept the same giant ways, and enjoyed playing the same big, clumsy jokes on each other.
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Language: English

Pages: 344

Format: Paperback

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