This commonly happens when the Cyclops is looking for a sheep to eat to replenish its health. You will see a similar animation of raising an arm followed by a punch in the ground, causing a small ...

In the 1950s, Idaho sheep ranchers had a problem. About a quarter of their lambs were being born dead or deformed—sometimes with a single eye centered in the middle of their forehead, like the Cyclops ...

They intend to blind the Cyclops when he returns and then leave the cave the following morning tied to the underside of the sheep.

Jackpot! The men started to eat, but the owner of the cave, a giant one-eyed Cyclops called Polyphemus - who’d have guessed that - returned with his herd of sheep. The Cyclops gobbled down two ...