One stone formation is called The Giant's Dance which is said to be a group of giants frozen in stone as God's punishment for dancing in a meadow on a Sunday. Cornish giants are different from Goliath of the Old Testament-Goliath was merely tall. Although some Cornish giants have only one eye, Cornish giants are not the same as the Greek Cyclops. The giants portrayed by popular, contemporary versions of Jack and the Beanstalk are not accurate portrayals either because they paint the Cornish giant as a tall, stout, stupid fellow slow in thought and wit. It is true, however, that Jack, the typical opponent, is a wag and noted for his cleverness-it is usually by trickery that Jack wins the upper hand, but the giant is a worthy adversary.
Some Cornish giants are truly giant.
The giant Bolster was said to be able to stride six miles at a time, making him more than twelve miles tall. Bolster is slender, to the point of being willowy, as the frontispiece illustrates. Yet, Bolster for all of his height and having his own wife, was lovesick for a mortal woman, and this mortal woman was a saint. Bolster refuses her rejection of him and she tricks him to his death. A prophetic dream tells Brutus he is to sail for Albion, the home of giants.