They claimed to have an os frontis in the medical school of
Leyden measuring 9.1 X 12.2 X .5 inches, which they deduce must
have belonged to a man 11 or 12 feet high.
It is said that while digging in France in 1613 there was
disinterred the body of a giant bearing the title "Theutobochus
Rex," and that the skeleton measured 25 feet long, 10 feet across
the shoulders, and 5 feet from breast to back. The shin-bone was
about 4 feet long, and the teeth as large as those of oxen. This
is likely another version of the finding of the remains of
Bucart.
Near Mezarino in Sicily in 1516 there was found the skeleton of a
giant whose height was at least 30 feet; his head was the size of
a hogshead, and each tooth weighed 5 ounces; and in 1548 and in
1550 there were others found of the height of 30 feet. The
Athenians found near their city skeletons measuring 34 and 36
feet in height. In Bohemia in 758 it is recorded that there was
found a human skeleton 26 feet tall, and the leg-bones are still
kept in a medieval castle in that country. In September, 1691,
there was the skull of a giant found in Macedonia which held 210
pounds of corn.
General Opinions.--All the accounts of giants originating in the
finding of monstrous bones must of course be discredited, as the
remains were likely those of some animal.
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