Similar Traditions in Other Cultures
Similar storytelling traditions are present elsewhere. For instance
- The many farfetched adventures of Baron Munchhausen, some of which may have had a folklore basis
- The Cumbrian Liars, a United Kingdom association who follow in the seven-league footsteps of Will Ritson.
- A brown bear coating himself in baking soda to be acceptable to humans as a polar bear, a young boy selling frozen words, and a woman whose voice cuts through a giant tree to release oranges that light the Polar night are all tales told by a Pomor elder in the Soviet animation film Laughter and Grief by the White Sea.
- The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel by the French writer Rabelais told the tale of two giants; father and son.
- Legends of Fionn mac Cumhaill also known by many other names including Finn MacCool, have it that he built the Giant's Causeway as stepping-stones to Scotland, so as not to get his feet wet; and that he also once scooped up part of Ireland to fling it at a rival, but it missed and landed in the Irish Sea — the clump became the Isle of Man and the pebble became Rockall, the void became Lough Neagh.
- Toell the Great was one of the great tall tales of Estonia.
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