Classes On Portugal / Lisang na Portugal

 I am sorry for the long time not posting back, but during the holidays and early this year were quite busy with some other work, related work to these classes and such. At least that means I shall post on Portuguese Christmas, New Year's and Epiphany Eve traditions this year and so will issues for it on these days. My new post here is sharing with everyone an old Portuguese tale, present in Portugal and Brazil (where the tale was taken by colonisation and migration), Pedro Malasarte e a Panela Mágica  ("Pedro Malasarte/Peter Bad-arts and the Magic Cooking-pan") is starred by Pedro Malasarte (corrupted version of "Pedro Malas(-)artes"/"Bad-arts Peter", here played by Brazilian actor Renato "Didi" Aragão), Portuguese and Brazilian folklore trickster which is an equivalent to the Spanish trickster Pedro Urdemalas  ("Pedro/Peter Schemes-them-Evil"), whom Spanish scholar Gregorio de Argaiz and Juan Ferreras identified with late-5th-cent...

I have an old newspaper clipping for this exhibit in the Lisbon Zoo which was in July-October 1996 as part of the 1990s Commemoration of the Portuguese Age of Discoveries which was called À Descoberta dos Bichos  ("To the Discovery of Critters"), which was around early scientific exploration of animal species from outside Europe and how often those were misrepresented as monsters. Most of the clipping of the exhibit advertisement The mythical monsters shown are (from left to right of the beginning of body of theirs, regardless of position upwards or downwards): Sea-devil (in German Meerteufel ) or She-Triton ( Tritona  in Portuguese) sea monster Ru(m)bus is a mythification of the Brill ( Rodovalho  in Portuguese) fish (scientific Latin name, Scophthalmus Rhombus ), which was believed to be a fish of the Greek sea and of the seas of Italy, round like a ring, with many red spots and full of sharp fins and spikes, being a slow swimmer because it was so big; he could go to th...

 (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...