{{Short description|Legendary giant}} '''Hurtaly''' or '''Hurtali''' is a legendary giant. He appears in ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'' by Rabelais, as an ancestor of Gargantua.<ref name="fr">[https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Pantagruel/%C3%89dition_Marty-Laveaux,_1868/Chapitre_1] Text at French Wikisource.</ref> Hurtaly is there said to have survived Noah's Flood, by sitting astride Noah's Ark ("''{{lang|fr|il estoit dessus à cheval, jambe de sà, jambe de là}}''").<ref name="fr"/> He is characterised as a ''{{lang|fr|beau mangeur des souppes}}'' ("a fine eater of soups"), and as the son of Faribroth, father of Nembroth.
A biography of Rabelais<ref>''Rabelais'', by M. A. Screech (1979), p.45</ref> states that Hurtaly is based on the Biblical Og, King of Bashan, and that Rabelais was paraphrasing the ''Pirkei of Rabbi Eliezar of Hyracanus''.<ref>Printed a few years later (1544). Screech p.46 calls the derivation of ''Hurtaly'' from ''ha-palit'', 'he who survived' ''just possible''. He comments on the 'Jewish dimension' as an example of the 'erudition' of Rabelais, and non-'destructive' comic approach (p.47).</ref> This legend is also mentioned in the Jewish Encyclopedia of Adler and Singer (article "Og"), where it is also attributed to the Pirke of Rabbi Eliezar [https://books.google.com/books?id=T3Q_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA388&lpg=PA388&dq=%22ha-palit%22+noah+ark#].
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