Raphaim are the giants of antiquity that King Solomon wrote about during his days great sorcerery in his mystical Keys of Solomon book. He claimed “Raphaim could only be vanquished by the Vau, which is the sword of Michael and generations of travail and pain.”(A)
These giants were thought to have been extinct, but seemed to only escaped to new lands, appearing to have first founded the Hebride Isles before the Vikings ever arrived. They were famous for desiring to eat Englishmen by the droves, hunting their blood and flesh, “Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman.”
The Key of the Solomon Kin, Translated by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers, 1972, p.123