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A Dictionary of English Folklore
...renewed, and were not always of the same type—in 1605 they were stalking on stilts; in 1672 they were fifteen feet tall, seated in chariots, and ‘moving, talking, and taking tobacco as they ride along, to the great admiration and delight of all the spectators’. In Cromwell's time they were destroyed, but at the accession of Charles II a fresh pair appeared. These, made from wickerwork, perished in the Great Fire of London; the next pair had their ‘entrails’ eaten up by rats; their fine wooden successors, carved in 1708 , were too heavy to...
