Results for "galicia"
5 entries found.
🇫🇷 France and 3 moreLes LavandièresKannerez-Noz
Supernatural washerwomen who wash shrouds or bloodstained clothes for those about to die.Being · Seeing and foretelling Legendary
🇵🇹 PortugalEnchanted Mouramoura encantada
A supernatural maiden from Portuguese and Galician folklore who guards treasures and ancient stones.Being · Cursing and harm · Luck and prosperity Legendary
🇪🇸 SpainXana
A water spirit of Asturian myth who offers treasures or madness to those who hear her song.Being · Luck and prosperity · Cursing and harm Legendary
🇪🇸 SpainQueimada
A Galician punch set alight while a spell is recited to drive off bad spiritsTradition · Protection Living
🇪🇸 SpainGatipedro
A horned cat from Galicia that makes children wet their bedsFigure · Cursing and harm Legendary
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Xana: John William Waterhouse, Public domain, source
- Queimada: No machine-readable author provided. Rapomon assumed (based on copyrig, Public domain, source
- Gatipedro: Dende, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Les Lavandières: Jean-Édouard Dargent, Public domain, source
- Enchanted Moura: Henrique José Teixeira Matos, Public domain, source