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Word of God or Myth of Man?

1. When the Great Spirit first made the earth he also created a large number of spirits. Some of these spirits were benevolent, but many were malevolent, and they went to live beneath the earth.

2. When mankind had spread all over the world, and girls were being born, some of the supernatural beings saw that these girls were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked. In those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and supernatural beings.

3. The children of darkness were descended from the dwarf Nibelung who was famous for having slain twelve giants.

All of these should strike the reader as whimsical story telling—as myth. But if told one of these statements is from the bible, the True Believer suspends normal critical judgment and any notion becomes plausible.