There are legends of both giants and dwarfs from all over the world, and while the hard evidence for such creatures existing during “historical times” seems thin to non-existent, both gigantic and diminutive primates are known from the fossil record. Think Gigantopithecus and Homo floresiensis.
There are also Pygmies (of our species Homo sapiens) still alive today, for instance the Twa in Rwanda, and they must have been more widespread during the Paleolithic and perhaps later. Although unlikely, I wouldn´t be *completely* surprised if the existence of other Pygmy races (or even species) would be confirmed from more recent times.
That being
said, the character of the stories collected by Karl Shuker (see links below)
is more difficult to gauge. Is it some kind of quasi-anthropology? Or are the dwarfish
tribes that supposedly inhabit North America (and play pranks on the American
Indians) really a kind of fairies? Some of their antics are surprisingly
similar to those of their counterparts from Celtic mythology! Note also the
peculiar Dover Demon, seen by two White teenage boys in 1977, which apparently
closely resembles little people from local Native folklore…
As usual, make of this content what you wish.
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