Giant

Also indexed as giants, ogre, ogres.

PUBLIC-TEXT OCCURRENCES1182.77% OF PUBLIC CORPUS

LEADING REGIONVictoria19 coded records

DOCUMENTED SPAN1861–1927accepted dated records

MAPPED EVIDENCE1210.2% geographically mapped

ARCHIVE SUMMARY

Accounts and retellings describe unusually large human-shaped beings, oversized tracks, or powerful ogre-like figures. Most of the material circulates as legend, belief record, or literary adaptation rather than as a modern sighting report. The accepted archive contains 118 records from 1861–1927. The largest coded regional group is Victoria (19), and the largest source group is Internet Archive (60). These distributions describe archive coverage, not real-world incidence.

OCCURRENCE TIMELINE

records by decade

1860sPEAK 341920s

REGIONAL FIELD

54 region-coded records

45.8%of this figure's records include a coded region

01Victoria1935.2%
02New South Wales1629.6%
03South Australia713.0%
04Queensland611.1%
05Western Australia35.6%
06Australian Capital Territory23.7%
07Tasmania11.9%

One cell equals 1% of the region-coded subset; exact record counts remain listed at right.

SOURCE CONCENTRATION

3 organisations

50.8%held by the leading source

01
Internet Archive
60
02
Project Gutenberg
42
03
Project Gutenberg Australia
16

SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS

6 OF 118