Saracen giantesses were portrayed as smoke-breathing giants beyond human scale.

Evidence

Flohart, another Saracen giantess found in Aliscans, is even more terrifying. This monster is three times as tall as a man, breathes smoke, and tears Christian soldiers apart like French bread: She was fifteen feet tall, and as such the French were terrified of her. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 193

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• CANDY: The image of a giantess tearing soldiers apart ‘like French bread’ is vivid and tweetable.