What is "laestrygonians"

The Laestrygonians (or Laestrygones, Laistrygones, Laistrygonians, Lestrygonians; Greek: ) are a tribe of giant cannibals from ancient Greek mythology.

According to Thucydides (6.2.1.) and Polybius (1.2.9) the Laestrygones inhabited southeast Sicily. The name is akin to that of the Lestriconi, a branch of the Corsi (Ligurian-Celtic) tribe in the northeast coast of Sardinia, of the present day Gallura.