Do watch Raventales Dancing Giants film, made for us by Max Sobol.

20 years of Raventales' Giants

Giantsmith Wendy Dacre has, over the years, made many HUGE constructions - 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 - and she still visits many fetes, festivals and schools each summer.

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.

The Ogress Cleaning Lady for the End of Time was a Giant we always wanted to make as it enables Michael to interact with people as a storyteller, since all our other giants have to be mute. The youngest of our Giants, she is proving a great success from festivals to superstores.