Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Alifanfaron" | Greek | A furious pagan and in love with the daughter of Pentapolin. Don Quixote |
"Alifanfaron the giant" | Greek | Don Quixote attacked a flock of sheep, which he declared to be the army of the giant Alifanfaron. Similarly Ajax, in a fit of madness, fell upon a flock of sheep, which he mistook for Grecian princes. |
"Caraculiambo" | Spain | The giant that Don Quixote intended should kneel at the feet of Dulcinea. (Cervantes: Don Quixote.) |
"Malambruno" | Spain | The giant, first cousin of queen Maguncia, of Canday'a, who enchanted Antonomasia and her husband, and shut them up in the tomb of the deceased queen. The infanta he transformed into a monkey of bråśś, and the knight into a crocodile. Don Quixote achieved their disenchantment by mounting the wooden horse called Clavileno. |