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Some Unitedstatesians leave empty coffee ground-lodging metal containers lying sideways, right side-up, upside-down in their gardens or in the uncultivated areas of their lawns.

Others make holes in metal-can bottoms for putting in soil topped by edible or ornamental plants. They sturdy them within planting-holes.

Would either practices work your pond-side-ward?

The introductory paragraph mentions artesian bores.

Online sources note artesian bores and artesian wells as respectively more and less than 20-meters (6.56-feet) deep.

Would that be true of outback Australia?

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That's interesting about hilly biogeography inviting giant-sized folklore and mythology. That generally is the way invoking Hawaiian-island giants.

For example, the Kauai (from Hawaiian Kaua'i, "place around one's neck"? or
"place to dry"?) island peak Haupu (from Hawaiian Hāʻupu, "affectionate yearning") keepsakes a giant who, along with others from other island peaks, kept ancient islanders knowledgeable and protected from invaders.

Hawaiian giants line up with your friendly category even as they, like their counterpart, little-sized Menehune (from Hawaiian mene -hune, "to move constantly"?), made modern Hawaii manageable with their respectively ancient ditch-making and overnight bridge-, fish pond-, temple-making.

Might there be more than two "rare cases" of "giants friendly and helpful" as The selfish giant and The young giant?

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The first paragraph to the third subheading, What future is there for Taransay, advises us that "A wood would be an ideal place for red squirrels, Britain's native squirrel now largely restricted to fringe areas."

The biogeographical story on the western side of the Atlantic pond considers that (now Unitedstatesian) North America domiciled forests from the entire east coast westward such that the native red squirrel enjoyed filing from touching tree-branch to touching tree-branch all the way to the Mississippi River.

The English settlers finished off that tree-to-tree forest, got rid of the native earthworms, had red squirrels housed in the British Isles and housed their own native British-Isles earthworms and native gray squirrels there.

So Unitedstatesian biogeographies identify gray squirrels as native east- and naturalized west-side ponders and red squirrels as native west- and naturalized east-side ponders.

How might that tally with British-Isles biogeographical accounts?

Yes, but it did not last long.

There are many theories about giants who appear in mythology, folklore, religions, etc. The story of Sinbad, for instance, very likely doesn't belong to Persia but to Greece with several episodes borrowed from Odysseus. Antoine Galland was pretty free spirited at his 'translations'.
About giants from Central Europe and Great Britain - I didn't explore too deeply on this subject yet. Maybe some other time. They are definitely connected to the local geography. More hills in the area - more giants in the mythology and folklore.

OK I will have time this weekend to think about and publish somethings along your suggestions.

Ha ha, I am unsure. You are right the t is not empahsised!

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It's rather common in certain Unitedstatesian areas to have big rocks for landscape architecture if not for leaching micronutrients also.

(Was there ever a "pet rock" fad in the British Isles?)

Pomegranates, peaches, grapes, gourds9

The computer acted as though I didn't sign in when I finished my comment.

So my apologies in case this comment and this question appear twice ;-{!

Arabian Nights and Sinbad the Sailor are Middle-Eastern fairy tales.

The aforementioned duo draws upon actual ancient precedents of giant-sized populations perhaps most famously through David defeating Goliath.

Is there an actual ancient precedent of giant-sized people in the European countries from which the other 8 fairy-tale giants lumber around?

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Fruit trees sound so appealing and, because drink- and food-producing, so practical.

Now what fruit might be associated with Epicureans?

Perhaps the pomegranate for starters...?!

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The two feline and the two fish images are so cooperative with any product lines.

They'd be great to have them even as footwear, such as country-dancing boots and knee-high socks, wouldn't they ;-D?)

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But Land Down Under-ers perhaps enunciate "couch potato" differently than Unitedstatesians...?!

My pronunciation is "kowtch po-TAY-to" even as perhaps many Unitedstatesians make it "kowch puh-TAY-to ;-D.

So many thanks for thefairytales link at the end of the 8th, Substack Blogspot-alternative subheading!

There are 18 fairy tales in the alphabeticalized fairy-tale list.

Does each fairy tale have famous illustrators or is the septet whose imagery is available what inspired the famousest illustrators?