The killing or slaying of a giant, especially as featured in mythological or fantasy narratives.
Combines 'gigant' with '-cide' (killing or killer, from Latin 'caedere'). Though archaic and literary, this term appears in classical mythology and fantasy literature to describe the defeat of giants.
Ancient myths are full of giganticide—from David and Goliath to the Olympian gods' war against the Titans, humanity's stories obsess over how the small defeat the large, which might reveal something deep about our psychological need for underdogs!
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