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Thardid Jimbo
Basic account
Cannibal giant of southeastern Aboriginal tales - a terror of the camp edge.
Account
Thardid Jimbo appears in some southeastern Australian Aboriginal stories as a cannibal giant who preys upon people. As with related figures, published versions are fragments of wider oral systems. He represents a widespread human narrative need: to give the danger outside the firelight a shape large enough to take seriously.
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