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An ogre (feminine: ogress) is a legendary monster depicted as a large, hideous, man-like being that eats ordinary human beings, especially infants and children. [1] Ogres frequently feature in mythology , folklore , and fiction throughout the world.
The extant sources for Norse mythology, particularly the Prose and Poetic Eddas, contain many names of jötnar and gýgjar (often glossed as giants and giantesses respectively).
This is a list of giants and giantesses from mythology and folklore; it does not include giants from modern fantasy fiction or role-playing games (for those, see list of species in fantasy fiction). Abrahamic religions & Religions of the ancient Near East
Mapinguari, giant sloth-like cryptid of Brazil and Bolivia often described as having one eye; Odin, a Norse god (he was born with two eyes, but traded one for a drink from Mimir's well) Ojáncanu, one-eyed giant with a ten-fingered hand, a ten-toed foot, a long beard and red hair of Cantabrian mythology who embodies evil, cruelty and brutality ...
Giants Mata and Grifone celebrated in Messina in August, Sicily, Italy. In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: gigas, cognate giga-) are beings of humanoid appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. The word giant is first attested in 1297 from Robert of Gloucester's chronicle. [1]
Thurs ["Giant"] causes anguish to women, misfortune makes few men cheerful. Old Icelandic ᚦ Þurs er kvenna kvöl ok kletta búi ok varðrúnar verr. Saturnus þengill. Thurs ["Giant"] is torture of women and cliff-dweller and husband of a giantess Saturn's thegn. [The source of this line in the poem is unclear.] Anglo-Saxon
In modern literature, he is variously described as an "ogre", [10] "demon" [11] or "giant". [12] In a passage from one of the Old Babylonian copies of the Epic of Gilgamesh, he is described as ḫarḫaru, based on context presumably "ogre", "monster" or "freak". [13] [14] He is generally portrayed as anthropomorphic. [2]
This oni (ogre) tramples a hapless villain in Beppu, Oita, Oita Prefecture, a famous onsen hot springs resort on the island of Kyushu in Japan. According to Chinese Taoism and esoteric Onmyōdō , the ways of yin and yang , the northeasterly direction is termed the kimon ( 鬼門 , "demon gate") and considered an unlucky direction through which ...