Don Quixote breaks his lance after he mistakes windmills for these creatures.
One of these creatures appears in a black cloud as Vasco de Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope in the Lusiads. With Friar John, another of these figures founds an institution with the motto "do as thou wilt;" that institution is the Abbey of Thélème. Badebec and Adamastor are both creatures of this kind, and the latter loses her life while birthing a baby with cities in its (*) teeth. Don Quixote breaks his lance after he mistakes windmills for these creatures. Another of these figures needs 17,913 cows to supply his milk needs and drowns Paris with his urine in a Rabelais work. For 10 points, identify these enormous humanoids exemplified by Pantagruel and Gargantua.
One of these creatures appears in a black cloud as Vasco de Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope in the Lusiads.
giants [accept demigods or spirits before "founds an institution"]