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.

Comparative anatomy has only lately obtained a hold in the public mind, and in the Middle Ages little was known of it.

The pretended giants' remains have been those of mastodons, elephants, and other animals.

From Suetonius we learn that Augustus Caesar pleased himself by adorning his palaces with so-called giants' bones of incredible size, preferring these to pictures or images.