- Tom
Hickathrift (or
sometimes Jack
Hickathrift) is a
legendary figure of East
Anglian English folklore — a
character similar to Jack the
Giant Killer....
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later fairy tale "Tom the Tinkeard", a
local Cornish variant of "Tom
Hickathrift",
contains a
similar account of the hero's
battle with a
giant named...
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Little John
Lubber fiend Ogre
Orgoglio Penhill Giant Thunderdell Tom
Hickathrift William of
Lindholme Yernagate Antero Vipunen Kalevi and his sons Toell...
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Stormalong Buffalo Bill Wild Bill
Hickok Crooked Mick of the
Speewah Tom
Hickathrift "How to Pronounce: P Cities". texastripper.com. 23
September 2014. Retrieved...
- tale "Tom the Tinkeard" (or "Tom the Tinkard"), a
local variant of "Tom
Hickathrift". Here,
Blunderbore has
built a
hedge over the King's
Highway between...
- St.
Helena The
Pedlar of
Swaffham Religious visions at
Walsingham Tom
Hickathrift Turpin's Cave
Witch Bottles Bottles filled with
nails buried under the...
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William the
Conqueror only
after a
prolonged struggle. The
story of Tom
Hickathrift is
sometimes set
around this period. In 1139
civil war
broke out between...
- Gurton's
Famous Histories of Sir Guy of Warwick, Sir
Bevis of Hampton, Tom
Hickathrift,
Friar Bacon,
Robin Hood, and the King and the
Cobbler (Westminster,...
- as a monk, gave the vill to the
monastery of Ely. The
folktale of Tom
Hickathrift or
Wisbech Giant is
sometimes set
about the time of the
Norman Invasion...
- in the
drolls about Tom the Tinkeard, a
local Cornish variant of "Tom
Hickathrift".
William Bottrell recorded a tale of the giant's last raid: here, the...
