Classes On Portugal / Lisang na Portugal

(Continued from part 6 ) the Portuguese  Tatro azeiteiro  (" Olive-oil-oily Tatro ", the latter word being of unknown origin/meaning) is a ghost who is the personification of fog, considered the provoker of it, as the ghost of a murdered man can provoke sudden mist as the Malay  Hantu Daguk;    ( Tatro Azeiteiro  illustration in the  Bestiário Tradicional Português /"Portuguese Traditional Bestiary")  (modern illustration of the  Hantu Daguk ) mythological creatures from both national mythologies include: the Portuguese  Alicórnio  can be portrayed as a man with only one eye in the middle of the forehead, or a man with one horn in is head, or a sort of flying unicorn, as the Chinese-origin  Qilin  can appear in Malaysian folklore as a chimera, unicorn ( Abath  in Malaysia) or some weird hybrid sort of deer horned dragon, Caquesseitão  (pronounced "Cah-ke-ssey-tah'aon, the "tah" and a"on" being said very fast into...

 (Continued from part 5 ) the Portuguese  Medo  ("Fear") is the personification of a person's own fear itself, somewhat similarly to the connection of an  Hantu Raya  with the human who puts it under their service and which can serve as the human owner's double, the Portuguese  Olhapim  is a kind of dwarf (so also called  anaio , related to  anão , dwarf in the "person with dwarfism" and "mythical small humanoid" sense; there are  anaios  unrelated to these as well similar to the usual European gnomes and dwarves and Graeco-Roman pygmies) spirit, goblin or haunting that has 2 eyes in the front and 2 in the back of its head and is similar in size to the Malay  Polong  (finger sized dwarve spirit; more akin to the allegorical  Dez anõezinhos da Tia Verde-Água /"The Ten Dwarfs of Aunt Blue Green") and in general features to the Malay spirit of many large protruding eyes across its body, the  Hantu Buta  wh...