Enchanted Moura
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The Enchanted moura or moura encantada is a supernatural being from the fairy tales of Portuguese and Galician folklore. Very beautiful and seductive, she lives under an imposed occult spell. Shapeshifters, the mouras encantadas occupy liminal spaces and are builders with stone of formidable strength.
The votive ara is called "alminha dos mouros" (wayside shrine of the mouros)
A moura-fiandeira carried Pedra Formosa on her head while she was spinning
Dólmen da Casa da Moura (Moura's House Dolmen)
Rock-cut tombs called Masseira, is the place where the mouras knead bread
Basque mythology
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The mythology of the ancient Basques largely did not survive the arrival of Christianity in the Basque Country between the 4th and 12th century AD. Most of what is known about elements of this original belief system is based on the analysis of legends, the study of place names and scant historical references to pagan rituals practised by the Basques.
A reproduction of a Hilarri, a Basque gravestone, from 1736 with commonly found symbols. Translated from Latin, it reads, "Maria Arros Sagaray died on the 19th day of April, 1736".