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Pages in category "Portuguese legendary creatures" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Lusitanian mythology is the mythology of the Lusitanians, an Indo-European speaking people of western Iberia, in what was then known as Lusitania. In present times, the territory comprises the central part of Portugal and small parts of Extremadura and Salamanca .
Portuguese legendary creatures (7 P) Pages in category "Portuguese mythology" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Ana is the name of the river Guadiana, thus pre-Roman in origin. [81] Ana is also the name of a goddess of Irish mythology. [82] In the village of Ponte, parish of Mouçós, on a hill that overlooks the River Corgo, there is a chapel called Santo Cabeço which legend says was built by the mouros encantados.
Portuguese mythology (2 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Portuguese folklore" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Almost every Portuguese or Galician town has a tale of a Moura Encantada. [9] The lore of the mouros encantados is used to find prehistoric monuments and was for some time used in the 19th century as the main method to locate Lusitanian archaeological "monuments", as Martins Sarmento viewed these as a kind of folk memory that was erased with ...
Monster may also be Native, but name was given from Native language by local whites & not the original name, if so. Sea goat – Half goat, half fish; Selkie – Shapeshifting seal people; Water bull – Nocturnal amphibious bull; Water Horse – General name for mythical water dwelling horses of many cultures
According to Portuguese, Galician, and Asturian mythology, the Mouros or Moiros are a race of supernatural beings which inhabited the lands of Galicia, Asturias and Portugal since the beginning of time.