Ingenuity is in the end more effective than pure strength, says a Georgian tale. A giant is challenging everybody to fight him but nobody dares, until a clever dwarf decides to accept the challenge.

The giant makes fabulous demonstrations of strength. He squeezes moisture out of a stone. Then, he throws another stone with such ferocity that the stone turns to dust upon hitting the ground. The dwarf responds by squeezing moisture out of a stone-like sponge, and then pretending to throw a second stone but instead throwing a handful of flour.

This is enough to persuade the giant that rather than fighting he should befriend the dwarf. However, he tries to test him one last time. Crossing the river in the direction to his house, the giant realizes that the dwarf, whom he is carrying on his shoulders, is not so heavy, which would mean that he is not so strong after all.

The little one responds that he is actually holding himself by grabbing the sky, so as not to burden his friend with so much weight. Still unconvinced, the giant asks him to let himself fully rest on his shoulders for a moment so he can feel his weight. The dwarf decides to prick him with two nails he is carrying, and feeling the pain the giant begs the dwarf to grab and hold himself from the sky again.

Once at the giant's house, when they are ready to eat the giant sneezes with such vigor that the little man ends up in the ceiling, holding himself up from a beam. But even on that occasion he has a way out of the revealing situation. He tells the giant that he is grabbing the beam and he plans to strike him with it, should he continue to be so impolite at the table. Not only does the giant promise never to sneeze again, but he submissively brings a ladder, for his strong little friend to come down from the beams.