SPANISH MYTHOLOGY - RACES and CREATURES:
Height: (M) 1'6 Feet , (F) 1'5 Feet
Weight: (M) 7 Pounds , (F) 6.3 Pounds
The trasgu or trasno is the Asturian equivalent of the leprechaun, a mischievous domestic creature who causes minor annoyance and disorder but who ultimately is relatively harmless. In Asturian tradition he is described as wearing a red cap, and curiously, as having a hole through his left hand. The trasgu disrupts the rhythms of household and work life by stealing small objects such as keys, moving furniture during the night, and generally making a nuisance of himself. In some places it is told that the trasgu can be domesticated, after which he will perform chores around the house until he is released from servitude. This aspect of the Celtic tradition has survived in J.K. Rowling’s house elves, who are bound to serve the households of wizards until they are presented with an item of clothing to wear. Anyone who remembers Dobby the house elf from the Harry Potter books or movies will be familiar with this variant tradition. The trasgu, like the Gremlin from Anglo tradition, is a metaphor for the normal disorder that invades our lives, a reminder that despite our best efforts, some things will never be completely organized or regularized. They are margin of error incarnate. Appropriately, when young children create mischief their elders scold them calling them pequeñus tragsus. This comparison makes a lot of sense when we take into account the trasgu‘s behavior. He is annoying to the point of enraging, but ultimately benevolent, and even lovable. In one tradition, a local family is so fed up with the shenanigans of their house’s trasgu that they pack up and leave. Once their cart is packed up and ready to pull away, the trasgu pops his head from under the bundles and says: ya que vais tous, de casa mudada, tamién múdome you, cula mióu gorra culurada, or in English since you’re all moving away from this house, I’m moving too, with my little red hat!
GIZOTSO (Iberian werewolf) 2
Gizotso is a savage monster that lives in the deep forest and looks like half Iberian wolf. He is extremely strong and comes out at night with chains hanging from his body. In Luzaide (Navarre), they are told to be terribly strong and to have to be born from the sexual intercourse between humans and wild animals.
On one occasion, Gizotso was seen in Mont Urkia while he was heading for Aginao’s (a country house in Zeanuri, Biscay); and some villagers shouted a warning to a woman who was near that house: “Run away from there, Gizotso is approaching!” As soon as she heard the shout, she started running home but the savage was quicker. He caught the started woman and disembowelled her.”
TRENTI 3
Height: (M) 1'10 Feet , (F) 1'9 Feet
Weight: (M) 12 Pounds , (F) 11 Pounds
Imp-like creature from the mythology of Cantabria, Spain. creature with dark skin and green eyes, his cover in mushrooms, moss, roots and leaves, lives deep in the forest. Is very annoying, and likes of made pranks to the humans, his favorite pull women's skirts and runaway jumping, but also likes to help humans specialy kids.
RAMIDREJU 4
Creature from cantabrian folclore, This creatures are born every 100 years from a weasel or a marten they have a very long body, like a snake, and their fur is green-colored. Its eyes are yellow and its nose is like that of a hog, which it uses to dig very deep holes, they are a very wanted animal because its fur heals every sickness and the animal has a big desire for gold.
FISH-MAN OF LIÉRGANES - (HOMBRE PEZ ) 5
Height: (M) 6 Feet , (F) 5'7 Feet
Weight: (M) 170 Pounds , (F) 140 Pounds
GUAJONA 6
Height: (M) 6'1 Feet , (F) 5'8 Feet
Weight: (M) 170 Pounds , (F) 140 Pounds
In the cantabrian mythology, the Guajona is an old lady, covered with a black mantle, with a emaciated face and only one tooth, enormously as a dagger, she hides in the day and come out in the night, when she enters in the houses, and approaches the children and healthy young persons when they are sleeping and drink their blood using is long tooth, leaving discolored and weak, but she never kills her victims.
BUSGOSU 7
Height: (M) 5'9 Feet , (F) 5'4 Feet
Weight: (M) 150 Pounds , (F) 120 Pounds
MONUCA 8
The monuca is a legendary animal in the mythology of Cantabria. It is similar to Marten or weasel, with certain feline traits. His fur is multicolored being his white head; body colors red, blue and black and the tail Purple.
TARTALO 9
Height: (M) 12 Feet , (F) 11'1 Feet
Weight: (M) 2000 Pounds , (F) 1680 Pounds
This wicked spirit is a giant one-eye man who works as a shepherd. This heartless savage kidnaps the young men/women from the villages and eats them; that’s why he is considered to be so fearsome in a many valleys of the Basque Country.
A Tartalo stands more than 12 feet tall and weighs about 2000 pounds.
According to a legend, two brothers went hunting to the mountains and they got caught in a big storm. They took refuge in a big hut that they found in the area. Suddenly, a flock of sheep that came after them entered into the hut too, and, along whit them, a giant man with only one eye. As soon as he come in, he blocked the entrance with a big stone and realized that the two brothers were inside. Tartalo told them that, at night, he would eat the oldest of the two and, the next day, the other one. So, he stuck a spit into the oldest brother, roasted him and ate him up. As Tartalo was full, he lay down on the floor and fell asleep. When Antimuño (the youngest brother) saw that, he put the spit in the fire until it was red-hot and, then, stuck it in Tartalo’s only eye. Tartalo stood up screaming, with the spit still stuck in his eye; he started looking for the boy but he was blind and could not find him among the sheep.
The next morning, he removed the big stone from the entrance and he stood at the entrance with his legs wide open. He called his sheep one by one and the sheep started coming out; he wanted to catch the young brother. But the young man knelt down on all fours with a fur of sheep covering his back and left the hut along with the sheep and through Tartalo’s legs. When Tartalo realized, he followed the sound of his steps. The young man jumped into a well and fled by swimming. Tartalo, on the contrary, could not swim and drowned in the well.
JENTIL 10
Height: (M) 12 Feet , (F) 11'1 Feet
Weight: (M) 1800 Pounds , (F) 1480 Pounds
The jentil (or Jentilak with the Basque plural), were a race of giants in the Basque mythology. This word meaning gentile, from Latin gentilis, was used to refer to prechristian civilizations and in particular to the builders of megalithic monuments, to which the other basque mythical legend the Mairuak are involved too.
A Jentil stands more than 12 feet tall and weighs about 1800 pounds.
The jentil were believed to have lived alongside the Basque people. They were hairy and so tall that they could walk in the sea and threw rocks from one mountain to another. This stone throwing has led to several tales and explanations for ancient stone buildings and large isolated rocks. Even the Basque ball game, pilota, is ascribed to these stone-throwers. The tradition lives on in the Basque power games of stone lifting and throwing. Some attributed to the jentil the defeat of Roland in the Battle of Roncevaux, where the Basques defeated the Frankish army by throwing rocks on them. The giants were believed to have created the neolithic monuments, such as dolmens, found around the Basque Country.
They also were said to have invented metallurgy and the saw and first grew wheat, teaching humans to farm. However, they were unwilling to move to the valleys from the mountains, with a certain unwillingness to progress. They disappeared into the earth under a dolmen in the Arratzaren valley in Navarra when a portentous luminous cloud – perhaps a star – appeared, said to have heralded the birth of Christ (Kixmi) and the end of the jentil age. Other stories say jentil threw themselves from a mountain. Only Olentzero remained, a giant who appears at Christmas and is reproduced as straw dolls.
There are many structures and places around the Basque Country with jentil in their name, generally referring to pagan or ancient places, supposedly built by the jentil. Dolmens are jentilarri or jentiletxe, harrespil are jentilbaratz, caves can be jentilzulo or jentilkoba.
OJANCANU and OJANCANA 11
Height: (M) 10 Feet , (F) 9'2 Feet
Weight: (M) 1150 Pounds , (F) 965 Pounds
The ojáncanu or ojáncano of Cantabrian mythology. This mythic creature is a giant of superhuman strength characterized by his single eye, huge body, ten fingered hand and ten toed foot, lower jaw two tusks, his long beard, Brown and red hair. He is so beast-like, so cruel and so ugly, that anybody seeing him would flee in horror. He is constantly doing evil deeds such as pulling up rocks, destroying huts and trees, and blocking water sources. He fights Cantabrian brown bears and Tudanca bulls, and always wins. He only fears the Anjanas, the good Cantabrian fairies. One must pull out the only white hair of his beard to kill him.
The ojáncana of Cantabrian mythology. This mythic creature is a giantess of superhuman strength characterized by his single eye, huge body, ten fingered hand and ten toed foot, lower jaw two tusks, huge breasts, long hair, Brown and red hair.
IJANA DE ARAS 12
Height: (M) 6 Feet , (F) 5'7 Feet
Weight: (M) 160 Pounds , (F) 130 Pounds
AATXE - ZEZENGORRI 13
Aatxe is a spirit in the folk mythology of the Basque people. His name is literally translated as "Young Bull", and he is sometimes known as Etsai. He is a cave-dwelling spirit who adopts the form of a young red bull, but being a shapeshifter, sometimes takes the shape of a man. At night, more so in stormy weather, he arises from the hollow which is his lair. He attacks criminals and other malevolent people. He also protects people by making them stay home when danger is near.
He is theorized to be a representative of the goddess Mari, or may be an enforcer of her will, punishing people who cheat her. Another name for him is Aatxegorri which means "young red bull". It is believed Aatxe inhabited caves and hollows; in many (Isturits, Sare, Errenteria, among others) engravings and paintings depicting aurochs, bulls, and oxen have been found; which implies that this Basque myth has its origins in the Paleolithic.
ORICUERNO 14
It's a white horse, with the legs of a fallow deer and the tail of a lion. It has purple head, blue eyes, and a long and twisted horn in its forehead (white at the beginning, black at the middle, and red at the end). He is known as Unicorn in other places, but the one from Cantabria is different because of the little wings it has on the hoof. The name of alicornio comes from there, since "Ala" in spanish means "Wing".
GUAXA 15
The Guaxa is the owl vampire of the Asturian mythology par excellence.
GALTZAGORRIAK 16
Height: (M) 5 Inches , (F) 5.15 Inches
Weight: (M) ? Oz , (F) ? Oz
Galtxagorriak. In Basque mythology, galtzagorriak, meaning the red-pants, are a type of iratxoak or imps.
According to the legend, a certain peasant who sought a way to do less work, was advised to go to certain shop of Bayonne and buy a box of galtzagorriak. He did that and, when he was back to his farm, he opened the small box. A bunch of little imps with red pants jumped immediately from it asking "what do we do, what do we do?" He immediately put them to work: repair the fence, prepare the land, milk the cows, redo the ceiling... in few minutes the galtzagorriak had done all the jobs and asked again "what do we do now, what do we do now?". The peasant ordered them to do many other things and again the job was done in minutes. But the galtzagorriak kept asking what to do. The more than pleased peasant had to say: "nothing". Frustrated the imps started to undo all the jobs they had done. Eventually, the peasant managed to get them back into their box and, from then on, he decided to do his job by himself.
VENTOLIN 17
Height: (M) 2 Feet , (F) 1'11 Feet
Wingspan: (M) 8 Feet , (F) 7'10 Feet
Weight: (M) 10 Pounds , (F) 8.5 Pounds
The Ventolines are creatures that are found in the tradition Cantabrian and Asturian. Them ventolines are spirits of the air that help to those who live in the costa Cantabrian.
n Cantabria is les describes with great wings green, and eyes of the color of the waves to the untangle is, with face angelic, that live on the sea, in them clouds reddish of West.
IRELTSO 18
He Ireltso can present is as a species of pig, although it distinguishes something strange-almost human-in a behavior and their gait in its form of look. Can present you with this form, of donkey or bird.
When someone is estravia to the pursue them, them carry until roads without return that end abruptly in ravines, cliffs or deep chasms.
TENTIRUJO 19
Height: (M) 8 Inches , (F) 7.12 Inches
Weight: (M) 1.5 pounds , (F) 1.2 pounds
The tentirujo is a goblin's pointy ears, dress red-beret on the head. Height: 8 inches. He lives in the basins of the rivers Saja and Besaya.
Take advantage of the invisibility that produce you the tender shoots of mandragora which always carries with him to approachthe obedient young to caress young women and return them brazen. So, when one mozuca gets sassy night overnight, says: "that already stumbled the Tentirujo!"
MIKOLASAK 20
Height: (M) 2'6 Feet , (F) 2'4 Feet
Weight: (M) 25 Pounds , (F) 21 Pounds
In the mythology of the Basque Country, the Mikolasak are small imps of great strength who always live in groups. Are skilled builders, working the stone that can be used to build large buildings or bridges in one night. They stay away from humans because of their cantankerous and stubborn personality. Mikolasak have red skinned, silver hair, white eyes, big chin, big nose and dark red small horns.
A Mikolasak stands more than 2'6 feet tall and weighs about 25 pounds.
The construction of the bridges of Azelain, in Andoain (Gipuzkoa) and Kastrexana (Biscay).
XANA 21
Height: (M) 5'10 Feet , (F) 5'4 Feet
Weight: (M) 145 Pounds , (F) 115 Pounds
The xana is a character found in Asturian mythology. Always female, she is a fairy nymph of extraordinary beauty believed to live in fountains, rivers, waterfalls or forested regions with pure water. She is usually described as small or slender with long blonde or light brown hair (most often curly), which she tends to with gold or silver combs woven from sun or moonbeams.
NUBERU 22
Height: (M) 11 Feet , (F) 10'2 Feet
Weight: (M) 830 Pounds , (F) 600 Pounds
The Nuberu or Nubeiro is a character of Asturian, Cantabrian or Galician mythology. He is known by the two names respectively depending on the mythology. According to Asturian mythology, the Nuberu - literally "The Cloud Master" (also known in Western Asturias as Reñubeiru or Xuan Cabritu), is the Asturian divinity of clouds and storms.
Sometimes it is represented as a man with a thick beard, who wears goat leathers and a big hat. He can be terribly cruel with people, damaging fields and pastures, although he can be also be very kind with those who had helped him before. The myth tell us that he lives in the city of Orito, in Egypt. Folklorists think that Nuberu is an Asturian remnant of the ancient god Taranis, who also ruled over the skies and was worshipped in Asturias until the Middle Ages.
PESANTA 23
In Catalan legend and popular culture, the Pesanta is an enormous dog (or sometimes a cat) that goes into people's houses in the night and puts itself on their chests making it difficult for them to breathe and causing them the most horrible nightmares. The Pesanta is black and hairy, with steel paws, but with holes so it can't take anything.
COCOLLONA 24
Legend has it that on the left bank of the River Onyar, in the neighborhood of Mercadal, there was a convent of nuns and devotees took a little messy life. Among them was a novice with true religious vocation that had reproached life.
The other nuns not to hear their reproaches, they shut in a cell in the basement of the convent. It was closed for many years due to darkness and humidity they went out a few flakes around the body and gradually underwent a metamorphosis that turned into a crocodile. But due to its holiness and purity of his soul back there came the wonderful butterfly wings, bright colors and transforming La Cocollona.
When he died, his ghost began to see the river Onyar swimming very close to where he had been unjustly imprisoned. They say that only the full moon, towards dawn, which at that time misty ghosts are visible Girona those who are truly sensitive, can see through the fog silhouette of a crocodile that swam butterfly up and down to see the first ray of sunshine.
Lamiak 25
The lamiak is a siren- or nereid-like creature in Basque mythology. Lamiak live in the river. They are very beautiful, and stay at the shore combing their long hair with a golden comb; they easily charm men. They have duck feet.
SUGAAR 26
Length: (M) 25 Feet , (F) 24 Feet
Weight: (M) 600 Pounds , (F) 510 Pounds
In Basque mythology, Sugaar is the male half of a pre-Christian Basque deity associated with storms and thunder. He is normally imagined as a dragon or serpent. Unlike his female consort, Mari, there are very few remaining legends about Sugaar. The basic purpose of his existence is to periodically join with Mari in the mountains to generate the storms.
In one myth Sugaar seduces a Scottish princess in the village of Mundaka to father the mythical first Lord of Biscay, Jaun Zuria. This legend is believed to be a fabrication made to legitimize the Lordship of Biscay as a separate state from Navarre, because there is no historical account of such a lord. Only the fact that the delegates of Mundaka were attributed with the formal privilege of being the first to vote in the Biltzar (Parliament) of the province may look as unlikely indication of the partial veracity of this legend.
AKERBELTZ 27
Height: (M) 7 Feet , (F) 6'6 Feet
Weight: (M) 285 Pounds , (F) 220 Pounds
Akerbeltz that literally means black goat, is the basque version of a pan, he usually apears as a healer, specially an animal healer, in some Basque Country´s farms there is a tradition to have a black goat betwen all the animals to akerbeltz protect them.
IRATXOAK 28
Height: (M) 2 Feet , (F) 1'11 Feet
Weight: (M) 12 Pounds , (F) 11 Pounds
Iratxoak (sing.: iratxo) are the imps of Basque mythology. Usually benevolent, they help with farming labors in the night if given presents of food.
ANJANA 29
Anjana is a type of witch in Hispanic folklore, the name perhaps being derived from Jana or Diana. While according to Cantabrian mythology they are one of the best known fairies. These witches/fairies take on theform of old women to test out the charity of human beings. They foil the cruel and ruthless Ojáncanu. In most stories, they are the good fairies of Cantabria, generous and protective of all people. their true form they are beautiful young women, fair haired and blue-eyed, clothed in tunics made of flowers and silver stars. They carry a gold staff and wear green stockings. They watch over animals and have underground palaces full of jewels and other treasure. The touch of their staff turns everything into riches.
BASAJAUN 30
Height: (M) 9 Feet , (F) 8'4 Feet
Weight: (M) 660 Pounds , (F) 480 Pounds
Basajaun, that literally means "lord of the forest", is the protecter of the forest, the shepherds and their flocks, every time the storm is arriving he supose to notice them.
MULADONA 31
In Catalan mythology a Muladona or Donamula (mule-woman or woman-mule in Catalan) is a female mule with a human woman's head. Legend has it that a young woman was cursed by the townspeople for being irreverent and irreligious and the curse turned her into a mule. She is said to wander the mountains, especially at night, joining mule trains. It is thought that the mules are frightened by her presence and stampede and they may even fall into ravines and die.
The Muladona looks like a mule but it is a mixture of human and animal, its mane is like a woman’s hair and its face, while still appearing to be like that of an animal, is obviously human.
It is always represented with the four legs of a mule, but sometimes the front two legs join a thorax located where a mule would have its neck. In addition, the animal is always represented with breasts to underline that it is female.
The muleteers used to give their mules small Muladona-shaped pieces of bread to eat in the belief that this would stop the animals being frightened and allow them to ignore her if she appeared. In addition they would repeatedly count the number of mules in the mule train in order to discover if the Muladona had become mixed in with their animals without them realizing, allowing them to avoid paying the price for the havoc she could sow.
SANTA COMPAÑA 32
The 'Santa Compaña' (Holy Company) is a mytical belief from Galicia and Asturias (my land, where it is called "Güestia"), in northwest Spain. It's a procession of souls that wanders paths and forests. It's an omen of death for those who see it pass by.
It's said that if you see the Santa Compaña you must draw a circle in the ground and get in, or lie face-down and cover your ears to not hear their prayers.
ROBLÓN 33
The roblón is a tree animated with features human, a giant of the Cantabrian mythology.
PECU 34
The both is a bird of evil, like the Hawk, grey head and back, chest and belly stripes and broom-shaped tail.
ESPUMERU 35
Height: (M) 2 Feet , (F) 1'11 Feet
Weight: (M) 13 Pounds , (F) 11 Pounds
El Espumeru is the playful spirit of the surf in the local mythology. We will be collecting something from the sea to take to the mountaintop and, eventually, something from the mountaintop back to the sea at the end of the week.
TRASTOLILLO 36
Height: (M) 2 Feet , (F) 1'11 Feet
Weight: (M) 25 Pounds , (F) 22 Pounds
It is best known among all the Goblins that inhabit houses in Cantabria. Is a Goblin playful and scatterbrained that constantly is laughing is. It is small and dark-skinned, with long black hair.
You have rogue face and some very green eyes, a fat nose, large teeth, two small horns and a corner eyeliner.
He wears a kind of robe which is made with bark sewn together, cover the head with a white cap and is supports in a stick of wood.
All the things that happen inside the House and that are inexplicable are copyright to the Trastolillo. As people know that they are things of the Goblin are surprised or frightened.
---Spanish---
Es el más conocido de entre todos los duendes que habitan las casas de Cantabria. Es un duende juguetón y atolondrado que constantemente está riéndose. Es pequeño y de piel morena, con el pelo largo y negro.
Tiene carita de pícaro y unos ojillos muy verdes, una nariz gorda, dientes grandes, dos pequeños cuernos y un rabillo corto.
Viste una especie de túnica que se hace con cortezas de árbol cosidas, se cubre la cabeza con un gorrito blanco y se apoya en un bastón de madera.
Todas las cosas que suceden dentro de la casa y que son inexplicables tienen por autor al Trastolillo. Como la gente sabe que son cosas del duende ni se sorprenden ni se asustan.
MOMOTXORRO 37
He is a mitological character from basque mythology, the Momotxorro. Momotxorros appear in carnivals in Alsasua.
HERENSUGE 38
Herensuge is the name for dragon in Basque language. In Basque mythology, dragons appear sparingly, sometimes with seven heads. Only the god Sugaar is associated with this creature but more often with a serpent.
CABALLUCOS 39
In the cantabrian mythology, Caballucos, with Horse head of four-feet and giant dragonflies thorax, four-legs, four-forewings, two-eyes and abdomen. The Caballucos appear in a variety of colors.
OSA ÁNDARA -+- BEARWOMAN ÁNDARA 40
Height: Feet
weight: Pounds
Cantabrian mythology.
DIP 41
In Catalan myth, Dip is an evil, black, hairy dog, an emissary of the Devil, who sucks people's blood. Like other figures associated with demons in Catalan myth, he is lame in one leg. Dip is pictured on the escutcheon of Pratdip.
CUEGLE 42
Height: (M) 7 Feet , (F) 6'6 Feet
Weight: (M) 380 Pounds , (F) 300 Pounds
The cuegle is a monster in Cantabrian folklore. Walking on two legs and roughly humanoid in shape, it has black skin, his long beard, grey hair, pointed ears, three arms without hands or fingers, five rows of teeth, a single stubby horn and three eyes in its head: one green, one red, and one blue. Despite its small size, it has great strength. The cuegle attacks people and livestock, and is reputed to steal babies from the cradle. It may be protected against by placing oak or holly leaves, which it finds repulsive, in the cradle.
CUÉLEBRE 43
Cuélebre (Asturian) or Culebre (Cantabrian), is a giant winged serpent-dragon of the Asturian and Cantabrian mythology, that lives in a cave, guards treasures and keeps xanas / anjanas as prisoners. Although they are immortal, they grow old as the time goes by and their scales become thick and impenetrable, and bat wings grow in their bodies. They don't usually move, and when they do it, it is in order to eat cattle and people. One can kill the cuélebre giving him as meal a red-hot stone or a bread full of pins. Its spit it is said to turn into a magic stone which heals many diseases.
MUSGOSO 44
In the cantabrian mythology, Musgoso. Is is of a man high and delgado, gloomy of face pale, eyes small and sunken and beard black very long, with air tired, that walks by them brañas dress with a zamarra of MOSS, hat of leaves, socksof skin of Wolf and in the pouch takes always a flute of a wood unknown. Always it is walking very slowly, as if he were tired, but it never stops.
GATIPEDRO 45
The gatipedro is a white cat that is characterized by having a dark color on full front horn and also walk leaning, besides for its four legs, with the language.
The gatipedro comes from night to the houses, and enters in those where has children sleeping. A time inside, the gatipedro uses the Horn to release, little to little, drops of water in the rooms where sleeping children small. The children, in dreams, hear the constant drip of the Horn and dream that mean, and really mean, wetting the bed. To avoid entering the children's rooms, just take a little salt in the room doors and at the foot of the windows. Since the gatipedro steps leaning on the language, you notice the taste of salt, which dislikes, so turn and continues his walk, without disturbing the sleep of infants.
---Spanish---
El gatipedro es un gato blanco que se caracteriza por poseer un cuerno de color oscuro en plena frente y también por caminar apoyándose, además de por sus cuatro patas, con la lengua.
El gatipedro viene de noche a las casas, y entra en aquellas donde haya niños durmiendo. Una vez dentro, el gatipedro usa el cuerno para soltar, poquito a poco, gotas de agua en las habitaciones donde duermen niños pequeños. Los niños, en sueños, escuchan el constante goteo del cuerno y sueñan que mean, y realmente mean, mojando la cama. Para evitar que entre en las habitaciones de los niños, basta con echar un poco de sal en las puertas de la habitación y al pie de las ventanas. Dado que el gatipedro camina apoyándose en la lengua, nota el sabor de la sal, que le desagrada, por lo que se da la vuelta y sigue su caminata nocturna, sin molestar el sueño de los infantes.
GAMUSINO 46
Height: (M) 2 Feet , (F) 1'11 Feet
Weight: (M) 20 Pounds , (F) 18 Pounds
---Spanish---
El gamusino es un ser imaginario utilizado desde hace mucho tiempo en varias regiones de España y Portugal para engañar y hacerle bromas a los niños y a cazadores inexpertos, pescadores novatos , o gente ajena a la idiosincrasia del mundo rural. La más habitual consiste en convencer al novato de que el gamusino es un animal esquivo que sólo puede cazarse de noche.
El mito del Gamusino está muy extendido por la Península y tiene multitud de variantes regionales y multitud de nombres, aunque todas las variantes consisten en seres imaginarios de naturaleza similar al gamusino. Así, se llama gambosí o gambutzí en Cataluña o gambusino en Salamanca, gangüezno en algunas zonas de Extremadura; biosbardos, gazafellos o cocerellos en Galicia, cordoveyos en Asturias, gambozino en Portugal y gambusino o gamburrino en otros lugares de la península. En el altoaragonés de la comarca de Ayerbe se utiliza por su parte el vocablo bambosino.
TARDO 47
Height: (M) 6 Inches , (F) 5'14 Inches
Weight: (M) ? Oz , (F) ? Oz
The tardo is a Goblin of the Galician mythology, similar to the trasno but much more malicious.
It is small, hairy, with many teeth, greenish and beady eyes black; It has beard and goes dressed in old clothes and a red Cap. In addition, it differs from other goblins because it carries a small and sharp sword. It is customary to live underground and take advantage of the darkness of the night to enter the houses, and thus, sitting on the chest of sleeping people, causing thempain and terrible nightmares.
To get rid of it is enough to leave a bowl of popcorn or some other cereal. As it is very curious, he will go to see the bowl and begin to count the grains, but as it only knows to count up to one hundred, returns to start again and again and thus will spend the night without disturbing, disappearing at dawn.
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El tardo es un duende de la mitología gallega, similar al trasno pero mucho más malévolo.
Es pequeño, peludo, con muchos dientes, de color verdoso y ojos redondos y negros; tiene barba y va vestido con ropas viejas y un gorro rojo. Además, se diferencia de otros duendes porque lleva una pequeña y afilada espada. Acostumbra a vivir bajo tierra y aprovecha la oscuridad de la noche para entrar en las casas, y así, sentarse sobre el pecho de las personas dormidas, provocándoles dolor y terribles pesadillas.
Para librarse de él basta con dejar un cuenco con granos de maíz o algún otro cereal. Como es muy curioso, irá a ver el cuenco y empezará a contar los granos, pero como sólo sabe contar hasta cien, volverá a empezar una y otra vez y así pasará la noche sin molestar, desapareciendo al amanecer.
PAPARRASOLLA 48
In Castilian mythology, the name "Paparrasolla" refers to a mythological being known for threatening and silencing misbehaving children who cry. It is the Castilian counterpart of the Greek harpy.
NITUS and FALUGA 49
In Catalan mythology, Nitus are small matter, impossible to describe by their smallness, which fall into a person's ear and go to the brain. They do not kill, but are said to feed like maggots on the memory and create tiredness and forgetfulness. His female equivalent is the faluga.
MALISMO 50
Height: (M) 2'6 Feet , (F) 2'4 Feet
Weight: (M) 35 - 40 Pounds , (F) 30 - 35 Pounds
It's some sort of little cave troll from Spanish mythology
DOWSER GOBLIN - ( duende zahorí ) 51
Height: (M) 1'4 Feet , (F) 1'3 Feet
Weight: (M) 4 - 5 Pounds , (F) 3 - 4 Pounds
The dowser goblin is one of the few Pixies Cantabrian regions that is not dedicated to having fun scaring and bothering the locals. Scruffy in appearance, it is small, brown skin, with a round face, long and sharp nose, big black eyes and blond hair. His voice is hoarse, as if he were angry, but is actually very cheerful and her laugh is long and mocking. He wears a Red Guard and always go running from one side to another.
MENIÑEIRO 52
Height: (M) 6 Inches , (F) 5.14 Inches
Weight: (M) 8 - 10 Oz , (F) 7 - 9 Oz
It is a sympathetic Galician Goblin (or more correctly a trasno) determined protector of very young children (usually babies) withwhich they play and are dedicated to entertain and have fun, while the adultosno can see them (as the babies do not speak, never can say something about these tiny sers). In areas of Galicia (as in Ourense and Chantada), when a baby smile for no apparent reason it is said: "Already out here the meniñeiro".
ESCORNAU 53
The Escornau or Escornao is a monster from the folklore of Extremadura (Spain), more exactly, the legend was born near the small village of Ahigal at the north of Cáceres.
According to the legend, the creature was created by God as a punishment for the sins committed by the residents of Ahigal and is usually described as a beast with the hindquarters of a horse, the forequarters of a bull and a wild boar's head with a long and sharp horn in the front.
Lots of humans and animals became victims of the Escornau, but the beast had a special interest for the women. The legend says that when a man or an animal were attacked and killed by the escornau the creature left their bodies in the ground but, when the victim was a woman, the beast used its horn to skewer her body and then proceeded to walk around with it like a trophy.
The people of Ahigal tried to kill the beast in multiple occasions but they hadn't achieved anything, the skin of the beast was so hard that neither bullets nor the arrows were able to pass through it. Finally they realised that only God was able to stop the Escornau and they began to pray for mercy and organised processions to show their remorse.
At one of those processions was when, at the moment when the beast was going to attack some women present at the ceremony, God paralyzed the Escornau and inflated it until the animal exploded, the only remains of the creature that the explosion left was its horn which was kept as a relic on the hermitage of Ahigal, but now it's been lost for years and nobody knows where can it be.
Bú 54
The Bú were given a gigantic anthropomorphic black owl figure and large wings (cousin of the owl, which is drunk the oils ofthe churches). Reddened eyes, large as soup plates; that terror you paralyze their victims. Its beak is sharp as knives and their claws are as when traps where it is impossible to flee (he who wascaught was dead). Entered through the windows to be awake children his hiding-place, normally dark caves in Holm (Holm oak, was a sacred tree of the celtiberians). Although the figure has changed and they have local differences.
For some informants of Villanueva of them infants the "Bú" was one: "Chepada person, bloated face and feet", "a bird that resembles to the Parrot, that is hears of night in mountains, in the cragsand it was said: Calla coming Bú", "with appearance of animal-bird with face of owl".
The Grandmothers of Almedina, on closed nights, opened the windows of the rooms of levantiscos grandchildren, who refused to sleep, and a loud voice, called the "Bú" so that you attract.
In this village they gave figure of a giant owl with huge eyes.
GAUEKO 55
In Basque mythology, Gaueko is the spirit of the night. He does not allow humans to do certain works outside the house during the night. He especially punishes all those who try to show off as brave in the night, boasting of not fearing the darkness. He is considered to be a devil in some accounts, a jentil or gentilic divinity in others. In some cases he makes his presence felt as a gust of wind, as he pronounces these words: Gaua Gauekoarentzat, eguna egunezkoarentzat ("the night for Gaueko (the one of the night), the day for the one of the day"). Sometimes he appears in the shape of a cow, sometimes in that of a monster.
SORGINAK 56
Sorginak (root form: sorgin, absolutive case (singular): sorgina) are the assistants of the goddess Mari in Basque mythology. It is also the Basque name for witches or pagan priestesses (though they could also be male), being difficult to discern between the mythological and real ones.
Sometimes sorginak are confused with lamiak (similar to nymphs). Along with them, and specially with Jentilak, sorginak are said often to have built the local megaliths.
Sorginak, like other European witches, used to participate in the sabbat, called akelarre locally. These mysteries happened on Friday nights, when Mari and Sugaar are said to meet in the locally sacred cave to engender storms.
EL COCO 57
The Coco (or Cuco, Coca, Cuca, Cucuy) is a mythical ghost-monster, equivalent to the bogeyman, found in many Hispanic and Lusophone countries. He can also be considered a Hispanic version of a bugbear, as it is a commonly used figure of speech representing an irrational or exaggerated fear. The Coco is a male being while Coca is the female version of the mythical monster, although it is not possible to distinguish one from the other as both are the representation of the same being.
SACK MAN 58
The Sack Man (also called the Bag Man or Man with the Bag/Sack) is a figure similar to the bogeyman, portrayed as a man with a sack on his back who carries naughty children away. Variants of this figure appear in many Latin countries, such as Spain, Portugal, Brazil and the countries of Spanish America, where it referred to as el "Hombre del costal", el hombre del saco, or in Portuguese, o homem do saco (all of which mean "the sack/bag man"), and also in Eastern Europe, Haiti and some countries in Asia.
In Spain, el hombre del saco is usually depicted as a mean and impossibly ugly and skinny old man who eats the misbehaving children he collects. In Brazil, o homem do saco is portrayed as an adult male, usually in the form of a vagrant, who carries a sack on his back, and collects mean disobedient children to sell. In Chile, Argentina and particularly in the Southern and Austral Zones, is mostly known as "El Viejo del Saco" ("The old man with the bag") who walks around the neighbourhood every day around supper time. This character is not considered or perceived as a mythical or fantastic creature by children. Instead, he is recognised as an insane psychotic murderer that somehow has been accepted by society which allows him to take a child that has been given to him willingly by disappointed parents or any child that is not home by sundown or supper time. In Honduras and Mexico misbehaving children fear "El Roba Chicos", or child-snatcher, which is very similar to "Hombre del Saco".
In Armenia and Georgia, children are threatened by the "Bag Man" who carries a bag and kidnaps those who don't behave. In Hungary, the local bogeyman, the mumus, is known as zsákos ember, literally "the person with a sack". In Turkey, Öcü (less often called Böcü) is a scary creature carrying a sack to capture and keep children. In Poland children are frightened by the bebok, babok, or bobok or who is also portrayed as a man with a sack. In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, a similar creature is known: bubák. It's a creature without a typical form, connected with darkness or scary places, making children fear but not taking them away usually. The character of čert, the devil, is used for that instead ("Don't be naughty or čert will take you away!"). In Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, buka ("бука"), babay ("бабай") or babayka ("бабайка") is used to keep children in bed or stop them from misbehaving. 'Babay' means "old man" in Tatar. Children are told that "babay" is an old man with a bag or a monster, usually hiding under the bed, and that it will take them away if they misbehave (though he is sometimes depicted as having no set appearance).
Several countries contrast their version of the sack man with the benign sack carrier Father Christmas. In the Netherlands and Flanders, Zwarte Piet (Dutch for "Black Pete") is a servant of Sinterklaas, who delivers bags of presents on December 5 and takes naughty kids back to Spain in the now empty bags. In some stories, the Zwarte Piets themselves were kidnapped as kids, and the kidnapped kids make up the next generation of Zwarte Piets. In Switzerland, the corresponding figure is known as Schmutzli (derived from Butzli) in German, or Père Fouettard in French. A similar figure, Krampus, appears in the folklore of Alpine countries, sometimes depicted with a sack or washtub to carry children away. In Bulgaria, children are sometimes told that a dark scary monster-like person called Torbalan (Bulgarian: "Торбалан", which comes from "торба", meaning a sack, so his name means "Man with a sack") will come and kidnap them with his large sack if they misbehave. He can be seen as the antipode of the Christmas figure Dyado Koleda (Bulgarian: Дядо Коледа; corresponding to Father Christmas). In Haiti, the Tonton Macoute (Haitian Creole: Uncle Gunnysack) is a giant, and a counterpart of Father Christmas, renowned for abducting bad children by putting them in his knapsack. During the dictatorship of Papa Doc Duvalier, certain Haitian secret policemen were given the name Tontons Macoutes ("Uncle-Gunnysacks") because they were said also to make people disappear.
In North India, children are sometimes threatened with the Bori Baba or "Father Sack" who carries a sack in which he places children he captures. A similar being, "Abu Kees" (ابو كيس), literally "The Man with a Bag", appears in Lebanon. In Vietnam, misbehaving children are told that ông ba bị (in the North; literally mister-three-bags) or ông kẹ (in the South) will come in the night and take them away. In Sri Lanka, elders frighten misbehaving children with Goni Billa, a scary man carrying a sack to capture and keep children. In the Western Cape folklore of South Africa, Antjie Somers is a Bogeyman who catches naughty children in a bag slung over his shoulder. Although the name is that of a female, Antjie Somers is traditionally a male figure (often an escaped slave who fled persecution by cross-dressing).