Classes On Portugal / Lisang na Portugal

The Mouras or Moiras Encantadas  ("Enchanted Mooressses", already mentioned here ) are entities in Portuguese folclore similar to the pagan/post-pagan fairies and pagan deities and such in Galician-Portuguese, Asturian, Castilian-Leonese and Spanish Extremadura folklore. A male equivalent, the Mouros / Moiros , also exist. The Moiras / Moiros monickers are taken equally from the proto-Celtic marwo meaning "dead" or "dark", from the Portuguese-Spanish (and later Brazilian-Uruguayan-Argentinian) idea created to try to fuse these Maruos and the North African/Muslim Mouros /Moors rationally by explaining that the Moors were enchanted into a Moorish land now transfered into the spirit world (as fairies are from the supernatural country of "fairyland",  Mouras / Moiras /Mooresses are from the supernatural country of " mourama "/" moirama ", "moorland"), to remain as hauntings and guardians of treasures after the Christi...

 (continued from part 7 ) the  legend of the  Galo de Barcelos  ("Rooster/Cock of Barcelos") is a miracle attributed to Saint James the Greater ( Sant'Iago o Maior ), one of the  santos populares  ("folk saints") which are both saints accepted by the Catholic Church who are especially prayed too and their holidays kept in a specific folk religious (folk Christian) way (often with many pagan Christianised leftovers), and saints not accepted by the Roman Church but that the people worships as such, (among the saints of this general category are included Saint Peter, Saint John he Baptist, Saint Anthony of Lisbon, Saint James at least in towns of the Saint James Way like Barcelos, Saint George at least in the Monção, Coimbra and Batalha regions...); in this case that a pilgrim is falsely accused of a crime and taken to be trialed before a dinning judge and is given the death penalty but states that he is as surely innocent as the cooked rooster is to crow, whi...

(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...