Raventales has two 3m high resident giants, Bellever and Albion and their toddler giant Tavy.
Giantsmith Wendy Dacre has, over the years, made many more-wodwos and wyverns, a dodo that flew, a pair of dragons with 20ft wingspans and a Green Knight that could be beheaded with an axe. Most are now composted - one green giant rots happily in a Bohemian forest. Our tiny Devon cottage does not lend itself to housing giants en masse! Bellever and Albion sleep in body-bags in our bedroom.
Bellever is named after Bellever Tor, a glorious granite outcrop on Dartmoor, and she is a spirit of the wilderness. Her attendants are a black whisht hound and a raven. She first walked at the Hastings Jack-in-the-Green Festival in 1989, and greeted visitors at the launch of the Society for Storytelling.
Albion represents the old giants who, in legend, once inhabited these islands. To us he is a guardian of our British oral heritage, and his element is the sea.
Tavy was first seen in unlikely places being pushed by another giant, Wistman, in a giant pram built on the roof of a car, and had a habit of bawling, which sprayed the onlookers. She has since learnt to walk, and is always getting into mischief.
