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* The [[Trope Namers]] are the Cyclopes of [[Classical Mythology]], of which there were two types:
** One was a group of people-eating giants - the most famous of them is Polyphemous from ''[[The Odyssey]]''.
** The other was a group of giants that worked in Hephaestus' forges, and were responsible for creating Zeus's thunderbolts among other things; these Cyclopes feature somewhat prominently in the first three ''[[Hymns of Callimachus]]''.
* [[Sinbad the Sailor]] encounters a man-eating giant during his third voyage, which [[Sir Richard Burton]] translates as a Cyclops (believing it to be Polyphemus specifically).
* [[Japanese Mythology|Japanese folklore]] is full of one-eyed creatures, including the Hitotsume Nyuudo (one eyed monk), the Aobozu (Blue Monk) and the Ippondatara (a giant with one eye and one leg).
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