The Giants of Dartmoor

Today Ross reads Laura an excerpt from a compilation of folk stories by William Crossing called Folklore & Legends of Dartmoor, compiled by Brian Le Messurier. The chapter is titled Giants and Strong Men, and we really get down into it. Expect to hear about Geoffrey of Monmouth, "excrescence", the Slipper Stones, and other quirks and oddities related to giants in Dartmoor.

Corrections & Clarifications:

• William Crossing was born in the 19th Century, however he wrote this chapter in the early 20th Century.
• Branscombe is the name of a village on the South coast of Devon.
• Excrescence means "a distinct outgrowth on a body or plant, resulting from disease or abnormality".
• A Megatherium is actually a giant sloth, not a giant tapir.
• Eugenist does indeed mean what it sounds like.
• Ephraim was the second son of Joseph in the Bible.

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