Not All Giants Are In Fairy Tales
Some are real people like you and me.
The only giants I knew about growing up were in the fairy tale Jack and The Beanstalk, and Goliath, the possible giant in the biblical story David and Goliath.
Then was the most real giant, the actor Richard Kiel who starred in James Bond films, standing a at 7’ 2”.
More giants can be found here:https://listverse.com/2018/10/21/top-10-real-life-giants-from-history/
That was all I knew about giants until 1991 when I travelled to Tatamagouche, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, for my solo art show at the Fraser Cultural Centre. There I learned about the giantess, Anna Swan.
Tatamagouche is a village by the sea on the north shore of Nova Scotia. According to Wikipedia, the name was derived from the native Mi’kmaq term Takǔmegoochk, translated as “Meeting of the waters”.
The French Acadians were the first European settlers in the Tatamagouche area in the early 18th century,
Anna Haining Bates (née Swan) was born in August 1846 in a log cabin, at Mill Brook, Nova Scotia, Canada. One of 13 children. She was the only one in her family who was not a normal size.
When Anna was 5 years old, she was 4 feet 8 inches tall and weighed over 100 pounds.
