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| History of Giants on Record Explored by Author Hugh Newman
Everyone knows the first line of the English fairy tale, "Fee Fi Fo Fum." But how many know the rest of the verse, which gets a little dark: "I smell the blood of an Englishman/ Be he alive, or be he dead/ I'll grind his bones to make my bread." What the hell kind of bedtime story is that? Actually, it derives from the early 18th century tale of Jack and a cannibalistic giant called "Jack the Giant Killer." The origins of that can be traced through oral histories to prehistoric England, when giants may have roamed not just the UK, but the Earth. The 16th century scribe, Raphael Holinshed, wrote in "Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland," that Britain's oldest acknowledged name was taken from a prehistoric king named Albion, who ruled a race of giants that dominated the UK for hundreds, possibly thousands of years B.C. The Bible is filled with stories of Middle Eastern giants, including the Nephilim tribe that spawned the Amorites, Emim and Anakim, who the Sumerians called the