150 - FAIRIES AND GIANTS OF CORNWALL. 
occurs in one of the Zulu tales; the Zulus being a Kafir race in 
the East of Africa, and unconnected with the Aryan races. Usiku- 
lumi, a young Zulu, is courting two daughters of a female cannibal 
called Uzembeni, (double courtship being apparently allowable 
among the Zulus). She comes in while he is in the house, and 
the daughters hide him. The old woman cries out that she smells 
fresh meat and she must have it. The young Zulu contrives to 
escape safely with the two daughters. 
In giant districts, memorials of their strength el prowess 
are constantly marked out, as, in the West of Cornwall, the Giant’s 
Chair, the Giant’s Table, &c., and also huge stones either dropped 
as those by Cormelian the wife of Cormoran, when they were 
building their house on St. Michael’s Mount, of which the Chapel 
Rock remains as proof: or thrown about in sport, as by the giants 
at Trecobben, or at each other in anger, as at St. Kevern and St. 
Just. There is an example in the North where Balderick who 
lived in the Isle of Rugen in the Baltic, wished to avoid wading 
through the sea when he went to Pomerania. He filled his apron 
therefore with earth to make a causeway to the mainland. Ashe 
proceeded, holes were torn in his apron, and from the earth that 
fell through were first formed the Nine Hills, afterwards the 
principal residence of the dwarfs, and next thirteen little hills. He 
then threw in the remainder which formed the Hook of Prosnitz 
and the little peninsula of Drigge, but a gap still remained, which 
so annoyed him that he died in a fit, and the causeway was never 
finished. 
Our Cornish Giants, Bolster and Trebiggan, were of enormous 
size, but even they have their counterparts. When the Giant 
Hrungnir fought Thor, his companions made a man of clay called 
Mockurkalfi, nine miles high and three broad, placing a mares-heart 
in him to assist him. But it had no courage and became an easy 
victim to Thialfi, the companion of Thor, while Hrungnir was 
~ crushed after fighting valiantly. Trebiggan is said to have taken 
men out of ships passing’ the Land’s End, but is beaten by 
Micromegas, an inhabitant of Sirius, as described by Voltaire. He 
was 8 miles high, and with an inhabitant of Saturn visited the 
earth, where he was surprised at the smallness of everything. He 
hooked up a whale out of the Arctic Sea with his little finger, and 
seeing something floating, which proved to be a ship, took it out 
