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Fighting giants with snakes in the butt

Eleanor Konik
Dec 20, 2021
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It recently came to my attention that "giant" is a really flexible term that can refer to people of a bunch of different sizes, from "on the tall side of human normal" to "so big their footsteps formed the Great Lakes." I wanted to update my understanding of the relationship between "real" giants and "mythic giants" so I did a little digging...

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