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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.
The legends of Portugal and Spain speak of an enchanted land, the Mourama, the land where an enchanted people, the Mouros (Celtic *MRVOS) [100] [101] dwell under the earth in Portugal and Galicia. The lore of Galicia says that "In Galicia there are two overlapped people: a part lives on the surface of the land; they are the Galician people, and ...
Portuguese legendary creatures (7 P) Pages in category "Portuguese mythology" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
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.
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 ...
The trasgo, trasno or trasgu is a mythological creature present in the tradition of several cultures of what is now northern Spain, especially in Galician, Asturian and Cantabrian traditional culture, it is also found in legends of North Portugal.
The Capelobo has two forms, an animal form and a humanoid form. In its animal form, it is like a tapir with attributes of a dog. In its humanoid form, it has the head of a giant anteater (or a tapir or dog, depending on the version of the myth), the body of a human, and rounded, bottle-shaped legs.
Pages in category "Portuguese folklore" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Brinquinho;