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#WyrdWednesday Christians killed all the 'mouros' (pagans) who lived in A Creba (#Galicia). So the princess invoked a big wave that drowned the Christians, separated A Creba from the mainland and turned it into an island. Then, she became a huge snake and caused many wrecks.

#WyrdWednesday In Galician folklore, a "moura" (fairy woman) often appear in the form of a terrible serpent. The boy who wants to disenchant her must be able to give her three kisses on the forehead or take with her own teeth the carnation the serpent has in her mouth.

#FairyTaleTuesday
The Aláparo was an one-legged, one-eyed monster who used to kidnap girls and women to eat them. The neighbors from Salvadur (#Galicia), fed up with this situation, hunted and killed the creature, and buried him under an oak tree that still exists today.

#MythologyMonday In some Galician tales, a man must take 3 cheeses to a fountain to disenchant 3 sisters who live there. But his wife eats a piece of cheese, so when the "mouras" appear, mounted on their white horses, one of them is lame, so the disenchantment cannot take place.

#WyrdWednesday

According to some sources of the time, the black horse that William the Conqueror rode in the famous Battle of Hastings (1066) was a gift from his ally, the King of #Galicia.

📸 Tapestry of Bayeux

Mais, por resumirmos, talvez os "epula" (banquetes) que os autores sitúan no Medulio máis non fosen do que paparotas rituais nas cales o hidromel e a "intoxicación sagrada" que este propiciaba (estados alterados de consciencia, u know) ocuparían un lugar de destaque.

#FaustianFriday According to a Galician medieval chronicle, a lord entered the Cova da Coruxa ('the owl's cave') with his soldiers. They saw a wide river, and handsome people singing and dancing on the other side. Both the lord and his companions died over the next year...

@SuperstitionSat @Loreofbooks @P_J_Richards

#InternationalFairyDay Sometimes, the Mouros (inhabitants of the underworld in Galician folklore) need help from human doctors, midwives or nurses. The Mouros let them access their world, but if they reveal the secret, they will be punished losing an eye, losing their speech...

"Os celtas, os dos corpos cumpridos"

Propaganda, mais da boa, @magago 😅

(Debuxo do Víctor Rivas)