Giants and Dwarfs

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
Cum grano salis – Bible Giants – Nephilim – the Giant Sons of God – Rephaim – Og, king of Bahsan – Marvellous Stories about him – Battles with Giants – Anakim – Goliath – Poetically described – Saul – The Statures of Adam, Eve, Noah, Abraham, and Moses – Abel’s Grave – Man’s Stature before the Flood – Early British Legends – Satan-Heathen Mythology and Giants – The Titans – The Gigantes – Antaeus – Ephialtes and Otus – Perseus – Tityus – Polyphemus – Homer describes him – Stature of Heathen Heroes – Giants on Etruscan Pottery – Colossal Architecture – Carnac – Egypt – Thebes – Anthens – Saxon Idol, Irminsula – Odin – Easter Island – Canton – East-Indian Caves -Imaginations of the Gigantic . . . . . . 1

CHAPTER II
Huge Skeleton found at Crete – Gabbaras, Giant of Claudius Caesar – Poslo and Secundilla – Mummies in the Sallustian Gardens – Egyptian Sarcophagus – Large Skeleton found during the Cretan War – Emperor Maximus – Emperors Jovianus and Charlemagne – Ferragus – Enotherus – Huge Skeletons found on the Orontes and in Mount Sigea – Antonius – Giant Child of Euthymenes – Large Bodies found – Hartebenunf – Nacvius Pollio – Eleazar, a Giant Jew – Giant Woman – Pallas – The Skeleton of Polyphemus – Skeletons in Sicily – in Thessalonica – Fossil Tooth found at Utica – Skeleton in Bohemia -Maundeville’s Testimony of Giants – Valence Giants – Rouen Giant, Ricon de Vallemont – Sicily Giants – Giants with Canute and Malcolm – Giant of St. Bees – Giant’s Field – Theutobochus – Isoret – Gigantic Bones in Aldermanbury – Giant Guanche – Austian Giant – Giant’s tooth – Thigh-bones of Giants – Gigantic Bones found in England – Caugick Giants – Bones at Lucerne – in Staffordshire – in Mecedonia – Bucart – Large Bones in Essex – Large Teeth in New England – Skeleton in Calabria – Little John – Giant’s Oak – Bones in Derbyshire – in Herefordshire – at Hythe – at Ripon – at Russun –vi Giants’ Bones examined critically – Bones Mineral Productions – Ancient British Remains – Stonehenge – Giants’ Dance – Merlin – Giant’s Grave at Penrith – Legends of – Giant’s Thumb – Long Meg and her Daughters – Giant’s Grave in Dorsetshire – in Lancashire – in Yorkshire – in Northumberland – in Leicestershire – Bell’s Grave – The Devil of Mount Sorrel – Giant’s Grave in Ireland – on the Bophorus – Giant’s Chamber – Giant’s Stairs – Macmahon – Giant’s Cave in Wiltshire – near Penrith – Maiden’s Step – Torquin – Giant’s Chair – Giant’s Cave in Cornwall – Sugar and Water Sunday – Giant’s Causeways – Pen-y-Gair – Giant in Dorsetshire – Long Man of Wilminton – Gogmagog’s Hills – Devil’s Works . . . . . . .21

CHAPTER III
Civic Giants – Corinaeus and Gogmagog – Legend of – Giant’s Leap – Giants in London Pageants – Gog and Magog in Guildhall – Midsummer Shows and Giants – Chester Giants – Giants in the Low Countries – Antigon, the Giant of Antwerp – Padua Giants – Valencia Giants – Types of Municipal Power – Giants at Dunkirk and Douai – Giant at Kenilworth Castle – at Woodford – Giants in Folk-lore and Fiction – Jack the Giant-killer –Teutonic Giants – Thor – Skrimmer – Hindu Legends – Woglog – Vishnu – Indian Giants – King Arthur – Giant of Mount St. Michael – Cornish Giants – Giants of Trecrobben – Ghosts of Giants – Holiurn of the Cairn – Tom and the Giant Blunderbuer – Bolster – Giant of Goran – Wrath – Jack the Tinkeard – Irish Giants – Fingall – Trick on a Scotch Giant – Legend of Giant Women – Grana – Rock of the Candle . . . . . . . . . . . 48

CHAPTER IV
Human Height – Comparisons – Early Germans – Changes in Stature of Mankind – Peruvian Giants – Patagonians – First Voyages to Pantagonia – Magellan – Pigafetta – Sir Francis Drake – Sir Thomas Cavendish – Turner – Van Noort – Dutch Travellers – French Travellers – Tarrubia – Spanish Travellers – Byron – Wallis – Carteret – Patagonian Skeleton and Archbishop of Lima – Captain Bourne – The Patagonians of this day described – Ladrone Islands – Chiloe – Giant Angling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

CHAPTER V
Benlli the Giant – his golden vest – Rollo or Rolf the Ganger – Giant King of Norway – Guy Earl of Warwick – Colbrand – Relics of Guy at Warwick Castle – Funnam – Nicholas Kieten – Ireland and Giants – Sir Richard Herbert – Giant of Bordeaux – Giant Fleming – Hans Braw – Aymon – Baron Benteurieder – Trick by Dwarf on Giant – Long Meg of Westminster – Huge Armour in Tower – Philargyrie – Giants and Dwarf in the Tower – Giants in May-games – Flemish Giant – Queen Elizabeth’s Giant Porter – Middleton, the child of Hale – Giant Piedmontese – Tartar Giant – Dutchmen of Strange Statures – Shakespeare and Giants – Ascapart – Antony Payne, the Cornish Giant – Giant Girl – Jacob Damman – Several Giants mentioned by Physicians and Travellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

CHAPTER VI
Walter Parsons, Porter to James I. – William Evans – Giants and Dwarfs together – Whim of Empress of Austria – Bodily Differences between Giants and Dwarfs – Oliver Cromwell’s Giant Porter – Pepys sees Giant Dutchman – John Tates – Pepys sees a Giant Woman – Thomas Birtles, Cheshire Giant – Miller, German Giant – Munster, Duke John Frederic’s Giant – Edmund Malone – Charles II and Giant – Bartholomew Fair – Giant Turk – Huge Os Frontis – Giant Polander, presented to Maximilian II – Giant Skeleton at Repton – King Askew – James Hanson – Irish Gaintess – the Painted Prince – Hugh Hird – Baron Burford – Giant’s Bone – Giants domestic Recreations . . 105

CHAPTER VII
High German woman – Tall Youth – Welsh Giant – High German Performer – Tall Black – Giant Fisherman – Large Bones at St. Alban’s – Giants at Court of Electors of Brandenburgh – King of Prussia’s Giant Guards – Propagation of Giants – Giant Regiment in Russia – Tall Essex Woman – Bartholomew Fair – Strong Saxon Giant – Thomas Fisher – Giant’s Hand – Henry Blacker, the British Giant – German Giant – Italian Giantess – Giant boy – Giant at Rouen – at Paris – Large Bregma – Daniel Cajanus – Gigantic Boy of Willingham – Young Colossus – New Wells – Tall Saxon Woman with Dwarf –Living Colossus – Tall Woman – Giant Youth at Southwark Fair –viii
Italian Giant – Giant’s Bones found – Cornelius MacGrath – Bishop Berkeley said to have produced a Giant by feeding – James Macdonald – Charles Byrne, or O’Brien – his Advertisements – Endeavours to obtain his Body – Lawsuit relating to his lost Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

CHAPTER VIII
Patrick Cotter, or O’Brien – let to a Showman – described by his Barber – Irish Giant and Dwarf advertised – Cotter described as a Descendant of King Brien Boreau – Infant Giants – Gigantic Twin Brothers – Cotter at Sadler’s Wells Theatre – his Advertisements – his Marriage – his Effect on a Hackney-coachman – The Man Mountain – Cotter with a Dwarf in his Pocket – compared with a Scotchman – Letter written by Cotter – Feat of Gallantry – critically described by a Surgeon – Nocturnal Walks – frightens a Highwayman – Cotter’s Watch – Death and Burial – his Portraits – Irish Giants – A manufactured Irish Giant – Contracts with Giants – Large Skeletons found in Cornwall – at Ewelm – at Charterhouse – Tall Children at York – Edward Bamford – Huge Thigh-bones – Tall Man in Clerkenwell – Female Giant from Anspock – Swedish Giants – Herefordshire Colossus – Gigantic Boys – Lovelace Love – Swiss Giant – Giant and Fairy – John Ashley – Large Skeleton in Ireland – Elizabeth Fairman – Peruvian Giant – The Gentle Giantess of Oxford – James Toller – William Bradley . . . . . . . . . . . . .166

CHAPTER IX
Jenkins, the tall Bank Clerk – Large bones at Vienna – Loushkin, the Russian Giant – Spanish Giant – Shaw, the Lifeguardsman – Epitaph on a Tall Soldier – Roger Byrne, Irish Giant – big Sam, Prince of ix
Wales’s Porter – Tennyson – Phlim O’Tool – Skeleton at Old Ford – Thomas Bell, the Cambridge Giant – Joseph Scoles – Wild Giantess – Lincolnshire Giantess – Albert, the Giant – Mrs. Cooke – Devonshire Giant – Grimaldi and Giants – Robert Hales, the Norfolk Giant – Huge Coffin – Louis, the French Giant – Swiss Giantess – Peter Tuchan – Giants at Bartholomew Fair – Manchester Gigantic Boy – Somersetshire Giantess – American Giantess – Cromach – Long Lawyer – Huge Skeleton – Giantess at St. Bees – Giant at Petersburg – Susannah Boyd –Giants at Vartholomew Fair – Giant at Parma – Giant at Adelphi Theatre – Lapland Giantess – Freeman, the American Giant – Giant and Dwarf at Olympic Theatre – Murphy, the Irish Giant – Sir W. H. Don – French Giant – Patrick Glynn – Giant’s Skeleton – Joseph Brice, the French Giant – Gigantic men seen by him – Polish Giantess – Corporal Moffatt – Barnum’s Giants – Giant City – Chinese Giants – Chang – British Giant – Tall Italian – Giant Policeman – Tall Prizefighter – Story f Giant and Dwarf – Proverb – Sundry Giants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

CHAPTER X
Bible Dwarfs – The Pigmies – their Battles with the Cranes – Fairy Dwarfs – Legendary Dwarfs – Vishnu – Dwarf Figures – Dwarf’s Chambers – Tom Thumb – Dwarfs of Teutonic Romance – Dwarfs in Pageants – Sir J. Mandeville’s Accounts of Dwarfs – Nations of Pigmies – Purchas writes of Dwarfs in Iceland, Japan, and Brizil – Isle of Pigmies – Burying-places of Dwarfs – Small Skeletons – Lilliputian Coffins – Short Nations – Bushmen – Madagascar Dwarfs – The Kimos – Bordeu and La Chappe see Dwarfs . . . . . . 236

CHAPTER XI
Egyptian Dwarfs – Dwarf Amulets – Romans kept Dwarfs – Emperor Augustus and Dwarfs – Lucius – Conopas – Andromeda – Sisyphus – Gladiatorial Dwarfs –Naked Dwarfs – Fancy Dwarf – Dwarfs in royal retinues – Spanish Court Dwarfs – Dwarf of Charles V. – King Christian’s Dwarf – Dwarf of Charles IX – Dwarf of Earl Marshal of England – Domestic Dwarfs – Duke of Mantua’s Dwarfs – Propagation of Dwarfs – Dwarf of Archduke Ferdinand – African King’s Dwarfs –
Dwarfs at Russian Court – Russian Dwarfs – Hamburg Dwarfs – Dram-drinking and Dwarfs – Byron describes Dwarfs – Philetas – Miximus and Tullius – Alypius – Croesus – Calvus – Characus – Uladislous – Baconthorpe – Dwarf in parrot’s cage – French Dwarf in cage – Decker – Jervis – The Molones – Dutch Dwarf – Shakespeare and Dwarfs – Queen Elizabeth’s gift to a Dwarf – John de Estrix – Zoilus – Richard Gibson – Charles I. present at his Marriage with Anne Shepherd – Waller’s Poem on the Marriage – Advertisement of Gibson’s Descendants – Jeffrey Hudson – his Life – Sir Christopher Wren – Sir Isaac Newton’s smallness – How to make Dwarfs . . 253

CHAPTER XII
Matthew Buchinger – his writings – wonderful Feats – his Wives – his Elegy and Epitaph – Oxfordshire Dwarf – Wonder of Nature – short Jannettie and Tall Jacob – Hannah Warton – John Wormbergh – Medals for Dwarfs – Changeling Child – Dwarf at Bartholomew Fair – Anne Rouse – Scotch Dwarf – German Dwarf – Hannah Wood – Fairy Women – Dwarf who never chewed Bread – Salisbury Dwarf – Persian Dwarf – his strong Feats – Dwarf Man, Woman and Horse – Letter to the Spectator – Black Prince – Peter the Great and Dwarfs – The Short Club and the Tall Club – Owen Farrel – John Coan – Verses repeated by him to Royal Family – Danish Dwarf – Plymouth Dwarf – Epigram on a Dwarf – Dwarf Greenlander – Dwarf Family at Nuremberg – Dwarf from France – his Feats – Dutch Dwarf – John Grimes – Court Dwarf – William Butler – Dwarf’s posture while sleeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

CHAPTER XIII
Joseph Boruwlaski – his life – Kemble and Dwarf – Bebe, King of Poland’s Dwarf – his life – Mdlle. Souvray – Kitip – Marc Catozze – the Corsican Fairy – Robert and Judith Skinner – Little Polander – Man in a Bottle – Sigor Jumpedo – Geneva Dwarf – her Feats – Welsh xi
Dwarf – Hopkins Hopkins – Friesland Dwarf – Little Will – Bertholde – Dwarf Prime Minister – Cornelius Caton – George Romondo – Liege
Dwarf – Dwarf at Russian Embassy – Dwarf Marriage – Dwarf Priest – Dwarf Marriage – Andrew Whiston, King of the Beggars . . . . 330

CHAPTER XIV
Thomas Cartwright – Dwarf at Paris – Shropshire Dwarf – Rogers – Thomas Carter – Peter Bono – William Boram – Sir Jeffrey Dunstan – Mayors of Garratt – Sir Harry Dimsdale – Thomas Allen – Lady Morgan, the Windsor Fairy – Amusing Letter from her – Woman in Miniature – The Great Contrast – Mrs. Kelly, the Irish Fairy – Normandy Dwarf – Ann Clowes – Whitelamb – Miss Pinmont – Akeneil, German Dwarf – Simon Pasp – Wybrand Lolkes – Peter Davies – Calvin Phillips – Aged Polish Dwarf in Russia – Burns and Dwarfs – The Town Steeple – The Black Dwarf – David Ritchie – Hay, Dwarf M.P. – La Grandeur – Norfolk Fairy – Yorkshire Little Man – Little Jenny – Portuguese Dwarf – Peter Dauntlow – Dwarf in Norfolk – Dwarf Mother – Crutchy Jack – John Hauptman – Nannette Stocker – Paris Dwarf – Miss Smith – Leach – his Feats – Elizabeth Ralph – Dwarf Stone – Captain Starkey – Yorkshire married Dwarf – Caroline Crachami – her Body stolen and sold . . . . . . . . . . .364

CHAPTER XV
Dwarf at Cardiff – Dwarfs at Bartholomew Fair – Lydia Walpole – Little Old Woman of Bagdad – Thomas Day – Musical Dwarf at Drury-lane Theatre – Dwarf at Tiverton – Boardman – Somersetshire Fairy – Tom Crib and Dwarf – Ettrick Shepherd describes Dwarf – Dwarf and Pig-faced Lady – Mexican Dwarf – Miniature John Bull – General Tom Thumb – Haydon, the Painter – Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren – Dwarfs at Bartholomew Fair – Miss Shaw – Farnham – Dawson – Miss Williams – Don Santos – Dwarf Marriage – Miss Hipkins – Aboo Zadek – Infant Dwarf – Dye – John Miller . . . . . . . . . 403

CHAPTER XVL
George Trout – sells his body – Indian Dwarf – Little Unknown – Dwarf at Olympic Theatre – What is it? – Highland Dwarfs – Don Francisco Hidalgo – Marquis of Lilliput – the Cluricaune – Jan Hannema – Dwarf Giantess – Fairy Queen – Black French Dwarf – The Aztecs – Edwin Calvert – Garibaldi and Dwarf – Lilliputian King – Chung Mow – Che Ma Che Sang – Dwarf at Milan – Dwarf Marriage – Dwarf Traveller – Colonel Chaffin – Dwarf Preacher – Eccentric Dwarf in Paris – Dwarf Husband – Stories about short people – Dwarfs’ Money – Sundry Dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

APPENDIX
Giant Statues at Bamian – Giants’ Graves – Giants’ Beds – Giant of Trendle Hill – Hindu Legend – Scandinavian Giants – Tall Zealander – Tall Woman – Sutherland – German Giant – Giant Duke of Saxony – The Child of Hale – Great George – Miller the Giant – Irish Giants – Walking in Stilts – Wiltshire Giant – Prussian Guards – Tall Essex Woman – Great Man of Waes – Giant Girl – Italian Giant – Tall Youth – MacGrath – Byrne – Cotter – Man Mountain – Tall Women – Bamford and Lord Mountford – plays the Dragon – Giant Soldier – Long Tom – Aerostatic Giant – Giants in the Clouds – Giant Girl – Chilcott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447