Giants loom large in the folklore of Cornwall,and legend tells us that once upon a time the Penwith area was plagued with them.Of the two most famous,Cormoran,the wicked Giant of St. Michael's Mount was eventually dispatched by Jack the Giant Killer,but Giant Bolster is said to have succumbed to the wiles of a saintly woman!Bolster must have been a truly enormous figure, since he could plant one foot on Carn Brea(the high hill just outside Camborne)and the other on the cliffs outside St. Agnes-some six miles away as the crow flies-he must have been about 12 miles high.