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Catalan mythology about witches - Catalan tradition distinguished between bruixeria ("witchcraft") based on an explicit compact with the Devil, and fetilleria (deriving from a word related to "fetish", and Old Portuguese feitiço), magic worked through charms and fetishes. The former was considered inherently evil, while the latter might ...
La Guita Xica was originally considered a demon, but has become a protective spirit over the past century. It is also called a tarasca, which is a name for draconic creatures of Spanish and Latin American folklore. La Guita Xica was half-mule and half-dragon. This comes from Catalan mountains where the mule remains a richly evocative animal.
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Luna, for example, is a name from Roman mythology and is the number 10 ranked name for baby girls. Others, like Eleuthia, have never cracked the top 1,000 list of boys ’ or girl s’ names in ...
Nuredduna (1947) is an opera in the Catalan language, with music by Antoni Massana i Bertran and a libretto by Miquel Forteza i Pinya. [ 4 ] The asteroid (16852) Nuredduna , part of the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, owes its name to this mythological character created by Costa i Llobera.
Spanish mythology refers to the sacred myths of the cultures of Spain. They include Galician mythology , Asturian mythology [ es ] , Cantabrian mythology , Catalan mythology , Lusitanian mythology and Basque mythology .
In Catalan mythology an aloja (Catalan pronunciation: [əˈlɔʒə]; plural aloges), also known as dona d'aigua, goja or paitida, is a feminine being that lives in places with fresh water. [1] These "water-women" are said to be able to turn into water blackbirds.