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B872. Giant birds.

B872.1. Giant eagle. India: Thompson-Balys.

B872.2. Giant gull. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 455, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 195.

B872.3. Giant falcon. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 207.

B872.4. Giant auk. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 430.

B873. Giant insects.

B16.7. Giant man-eating ants.

B873.1. Giant louse. *Type 621; *BP III 483 (Gr. No. 212). See also all references to F983.2.

F983.2. Louse fattened. H522.1. Test: guessing origin of certain skin.

B873.2. Giant scorpion. *Chauvin VII 86 No. 373bis.; Jewish: *Neuman.

B873.3. Giant spider. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 347.

B873.4. Giant ant. Jewish: Neuman.

B874. Giant fish. *Chauvin VII 8 No. 373A n. 2; *Reinhard PMLA XXXVIII 447 n. 81; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 40, 269f., 1014, II 29; Japanese: Ikeda. — Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 78, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 640, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 539.

B11.2.1.3. Dragon as modified fish. B60. Mythical fish.

B874.1. Giant river catfish. Ladino: Conzemius BBAE CVI 130f.

B874.2. Giant eel. Irish myth: Cross.

B15.7.12. Eel with fiery mane.

B874.3. Giant whale. Irish myth: Cross; Marquesas: Handy 116.

B874.3.1. Whale cast ashore — three golden teeth and five ounces in each of these teeth. Irish myth: Cross.

B107.6. Monster (whale) with golden teeth.

B874.3.2. Giant whale cast ashore on the night of Christ's Nativity: "fifty men were on the upper parts of its head, and (there was) the limit of vision between each two of them. Such was the amount of ground which the animal occupied. Irish myth: Cross.

B81.2.4. Giant mermaid cast ashore.

B874.4. Giant salmon. Irish myth: Cross.

B874.5. Giant shark. Marquesas: Handy 110.

B874.6. Giant clam. Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 266.

B875. Giant reptiles.

B875.1. Giant serpent. *Chauvin VII 10 No. 373B n. 2; Jātaka Index s.v. "Nāga". — Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 216f.; Norwegian: Solheim Register 17; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 181; Irish myth: Cross; Missouri-French: Carrière; Jewish: Neuman; Japanese: Ikeda. — Eskimo (Greenland): Thalbitzer 5; Tonga: Gifford 178;