However, the tailor, having found the bed too large, had slept in the corner. During the night, the giant attempts to kill the tailor by bashing the bed. Impressed, the giant brings the tailor to the giant's home, where other giants live as well. Instead, the tailor climbs on, so the giant carries him as well, but it appears as if the tailor is supporting the branches. The tailor directs the giant to carry the trunk, while the tailor will carry the branches. Later, the giant asks the tailor to help him carry a tree. The tailor counters the feat by tossing a bird that flies away into the sky the giant believes the small bird is a "rock" which is thrown so far that it never lands. The giant throws a rock far into the air, and it eventually lands. When the giant squeezes water from a boulder, the tailor squeezes milk, or whey, from cheese. Later the tailor encounters a giant who assumes that "Seven at One Blow" refers to seven men. In the German fairy tale "The Valiant Little Tailor", a tailor kills seven flies with one blow of his hand, and is so proud he inscribes "Seven at One Blow" on a belt he proudly wears. The fairy tale ends at the court of King Arthur, where Jack marries the Duke's daughter and the two are given an estate where they live happily ever after. Jack beheads the giant, the sorcerer flees, the Duke's daughter is restored to her true shape, and the captives are freed. Galigantus holds captive many knights and ladies and a Duke's daughter who has been transformed into a white doe through the power of a sorcerer. Jack encounters his final adversary when directed to the castle of Galigantus (Galigantua, in Joseph Jacobs' version) by an elderly man. Jack defeats and beheads the giant with a trick involving the house's moat and drawbridge. He then frees the giant's captives and returns to the house of the knight and lady he earlier had rescued.Ī banquet is prepared by the knight and lady, but interrupted by the two-headed giant Thunderdel chanting "Fee, fau, fum". The second he discovers in a cave, and hidden by his invisible cloak, Jack cuts off the giant's nose, then slays him by plunging his sword into the monster's back. The first is terrorizing a knight and his lady, and Jack cuts off the giant's legs then puts him to death. In gratitude for having spared his castle, the giant gives Jack a magic sword, a cap of knowledge, a cloak of invisibility, and shoes of swiftness.
On a trip to Wales, Jack encounters an unnamed two-headed Welsh giant and tricks him into slashing his own belly open.Īfter Jack becomes King Arthur's son's servant, the two spend the night with an unnamed three-headed giant and rob him in the morning.
Jack manages to slay Blunderbore and his brother Rebecks by hanging and stabbing them, and in the process he frees three ladies held captive in the giant's castle. Jack is dubbed 'Jack the Giant-Killer' for this feat and receives not only the giant's wealth but a sword and belt to commemorate the event.Īfter hearing of the death of Cormoran, another giant named Blunderbore, vows vengeance and carries Jack off to an enchanted castle. When Jack reaches the bottom, he uses his axe to chop down the giant beanstalk, letting the giant fall to his death, and Jack and his mother live happily ever after.Ī young man named " Jack" encounters a cattle devouring giant named "Cormoran" (Cornish: The Giant of the Sea SWF:Kowr-Mor-An) and lures him to his death in a pit trap. The harp screams to wake up the sleeping giant who chases after Jack and follows him down the giant beanstalk. Jack uses his wit and speed to steal the giant's goose that laid golden eggs to solve his and his mother's money troubles, but returns a second time to steal the giant's magic harp. He visits an enormous castle and convinces a giantess to take him in and hide him from her husband, a giant that enjoys eating humans. After growing a giant beanstalk from magic beans, a young man named " Jack" climbs the beanstalk and discovers a land above the clouds populated by giants. Arguably the most famous fairy tale to include giants is Jack and the Beanstalk.
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