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Re: Monsters in Spanish Legends
« Reply #20 on: 06/23/07 at 09:42:03 » |
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The rest of the Cantabrian stuff:
Ojáncano
An evil monster, sometimes even called the blight of Cantabria, he represents evil, cruelty and brutality. It’s a kind of savage and vindictive ogre, which inhabits the dark deeps of the most hidden caves of the mountain. The gorges and canyons are said to be the work of these monsters
These giants have only one eye and a deep booming voice. The whole of its body is covered with thick reddish hair from his head and beard, in the middle of this there is one single white hair, the Ojáncano’s only week spot. If this hair is pulled out, after blinding his only eye, the Ojáncano dies. Tradition says that they are afraid of flying toads (I guess this doesn’t refer to an actual flying toad, it must be some kind of popular name given to a kind of toad) and owls. When a flying toad touches the Ojáncano he dies unless he can find a green hazel leaf covered with fox blood.
Normally they eat acorns, leafs, animals and food he steals. Also he eats bats and birds.
Among the evil doing of this ogre one can list destroying trees, drying fountains, steal sheep, kidnapping young shepherdesses, destroying bridges, killing chickens and cows, opening cliffs, cracking roofs and stealing holy images from churches. Besides all this he weaves into the villages, envy, spite and greed. To protect newborns from being kidnapped by this monster they must be covered with sacred holy water anointments.
Curiously there are tales of benevolent Ojáncano that could even be petted and would warn about the approach of evil Ojáncanos.
Ojáncana
The Ojáncana is the wife of the Ojáncano and, like him, is an evil and cruel being, but her victims of choice are children that get lost in the woods.
She has two eyes and big dangling breasts, that she carries on her back when she has to run, has no beard but a long and spiky hair, from her mouth grow two big and curly teeth.
The reproduction cycle of the Ojáncanos and Ojáncanas is very peculiar since they can't give birth, when an Ojáncano is very old other Ojáncanos kill him, open his belly, divide the entrails among themselves and burry the remaining carcase under an oak that is near a yew tree. After nine months from the dead body grow some huge and slimy yellow worms, that smell like rotten meat, and for three years they are breast fed by an Ojáncana, with blood that grows from her breasts, when they grow they become Ojáncanos or Ojáncanas.
They are the complete opposite to the Anjanas, the only creature that can protect the people from these monsters
Ramidreju
The Ramidreju is a legendary animal that is born every one hundred years from a weasel or a rámila (?). It a very thin and long animal, with green skin, yellow eyes and a snout like a hog, that he uses to dig holes.
It is said that his skin can cure every disease and he can find hidden treasures.
Tentirujo
These are little devils of temptation, with pointy ear, red coats and berets. They carry tender mandrake root that make them invisible, and use that to tickle and fondle young girls, making them sluts (not the exact translation, but that the meaning). They have some similarities to the busgosu of the Asturias.
Trastolillo
These are cantabrian household goblins.
Like the trasgos, they are protectors of a specific home, but are rebellious and ill mannered.
They are described as a little creature, darker than coal, and with fur the same colour. Their eyes are green, and they have twisted teeth.
They wear a kind of purple coat made of tree bark sowed with ivy, they cover their head with a white hood and carry a wooden rod.
Among their feats are, stealing flour, drinking all the milk in the house, opening the window during the night, all of witch he does while laughing out loud.
Trenti
These are trickster goblins of the woods. They wear leafs, moss, and roots for clothes. They hide in the bushes and shrubs, so as too steal the clothes of young bathing girls and pinch their buttocks. Although they are jokers they can also be helpful to man, without any need for reward of request, having a special place in their harts for little children. They can also help shepherds to finding cattle that has been lost in storms or by the actions of the Ojáncanoa, also they aid old women to fend for themselves. They never drink water, for it is like poison to them
(Omitted from translation: Trasgo, Pesadiellu, Sumiciu, Ventolín, as all these were similar to the Asturias variants)
Also, I found a few pictures, not at all that interesting, I just wanted show you these tow, I think they are just awesome, especially the Ojancana.
http://club2.telepolis.com/raro1/imagenes/ojancano.jpg
http://club2.telepolis.com/raro1/imagenes/ojancana.jpg
I hope you enjoy this stuff. During the next week I'll do the Basque stuff.
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Re: Monsters in Spanish Legends
« Reply #22 on: 06/24/07 at 05:45:29 » |
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Hum… there a few monsters there I didn’t find, I think I might as well translate them before the Basque stuff.
Don’t be thinking this abundance of information on folklore and monsters is something common, by far! Practically every country in the EU space is letting their native (popular/traditional) culture wither away.
The difference here is that this information isn’t “Spanish”, you won’t find Spanish information, you’ll find Catalan, Basque, Galicia, and Asturian information. These are nations that are actively trying to evidence the differences between them and Castile (the ruling Spanish nation), contrarily to other European nations, that are trying to erode their differences to make a more homogeneous European space, I mean, the amount of info I find about small areas of Spain is far greater that the info I find about my own country, it’s ridiculous…
This is classic (and puerile) really: no culture, no differences, more union. These fucking idiots don’t have a clue as to create unions throw difference, and so, everybody suffers… except the politicians.
But yeah, you guys have it even harder, because of that guy with the moustache.
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Re: Monsters in Spanish Legends
« Reply #23 on: 06/24/07 at 12:37:24 » |
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Yes, I find info on the famous Rübezahl or the Bavarian Wolpertinger because they are well know all over Germany.
Here in Germany we`ve got the Saxons or the Bavarians for example they`ve speak their own dialect but they don`t won`t to have their own couuntry and governmenet.Yes, they Bavaria and Saxon are free states and that is pretty much everything they wont ( Not like the baskian ETA which wonts its own state).
Well, I think there is abook out there where I can find more information about Germna fairies.
BTW
Here is a quiz:
http://www.lasalle.es/ciano/albores/actividades/2003-05-mitologia/concur so-mitologia.htm
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« Reply #24 on: 06/26/07 at 18:20:52 » |
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Well, I’m not saying all these regions of Spain want independence, that I know of the only ones that are actively doing so are the Basque Country, with the already referred ETA, and now there have been some rumours about Galicia, some bombs have even been found, some of witch stored in northern Portugal (our brothers in the good and the bad…). The others simply want to be recognized as different from Castile, to have their singularity recognized. Catalonia, for example has achieved almost complete autonomy in a much more peaceful way that the Basques, having now their own education, laws and government system, completely independent from the rest of Spain but still a part of it.
Anyway, here are some more Cantabrian critters:
The Duende Zahorí
Contrarily the other Cantabrian spirits this one doesn’t play jokes. He is called the “miraculous searcher” or the “duende of lost things, for when same one in Cantabria loses anything the can summon the Duende Zahorí with the following incantation
Duende, duende, duendecito,
una cosa yo perdí;
duende, duende, duendecito,
compadécete de mí.
If the person summoning him is good, the Duende will arrive quickly and listen carefully to the description of the lost object, and instructs his summoner to follow him. He will take a lot of time to find it and will go to a lot of unnecessary places, if the person following him starts to lose his patience and doubting the duende he will disappear, and take the lost object with him, that he gives to someone needy.
He is small, with a round face and a big and sharp nose, big black eyes and red hair. His voice is sore, like he is upset, but he is actually always happy. He also dresses a red coat.
Enanucos bigaristas
Lonely dwarfs that live in the deep cantabrian woods. Their names come from the instrument they play, the “bígaro”, an instrument similar to a sea conch with a hundred different notes.
They dedicate themselves to helping needy people, giving advices and wise predictions, as they know and understand the problems of men. They sometimes make alliances with knowledgeable Anjanas and together they discuss aspects of their culture. Even if they are so good they can become evil if tricked or offended.
Legends mentions an evil Enanuco in the Iguña Mountains that lives near a hill called Lindalaseras. During the night he poisons the water of the fountain with scorpions and during the day he plays his bígaro to attract shepherds and young girls. He then tricks them into drinking from the fountain. Those that do become depressed, melancholic and some time later die.
The Cuines de Silió
These are familiar dwarfs that always work in pairs doing good deeds, especially to young children. They dress a red hood and white boots.
The Mengues
Evil worms that hide under the ferns at the top of the mounts at mid night under the full moons. If captures and carried on a small box they grant extraordinary powers. They require two ponds of meat every day or they eat their owner. Only if you have an "el rézpede de coliebra" (?) bag are you safe from their infernal magic and hypnotic powers.
Caballucos del Diablo (the Devil’s horses… kinda)
The Caballucos appear on the magical Saint John ’s Eve, in a burst of fire and smoke, shattering the stillness and silence of the night with an infernal howl of rage for being imprisoned for a whole year.
The Caballucos cross the night with their dragon fly wings in search for four leaf clovers, that they eat, to present mortals from finding them and benefit from their good luck.
The legends report that there are seven Caballucos, corresponding to seven colours: red, white, black, blue, green, yellow and orange. The red one is the biggest and the strongest being their leader, which the devil himself sometimes rides.
They cross every path and roads, leaving deep horseshoe marks on every thing the step.
Their breath is as cold as the winter winds and as they travel they make the leaves of the trees fall. It is said that their search is so intense that when they stop their saliva, dripping from their mouths, when touches the floor, turns into gold ingots, who ever finds these ingots will the rich and prosperous for the rest of his life, but when he dies his soul will go straight to hell.
It is said that these horses used to e man that for their sins lost their soul and are forced to run the roads of Cantabria for eternity.
The red one used to be a man that loaned money to farmers and took their lands; the white one was a miller that stole many bag of flour from his lord; the black one was an old hermit that trick everyone; the green one was the lord of many lands that took advantage on many young girls and the orange one was a young boy that, out of hate, used to beat his parents.
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Re: Monsters in Spanish Legends
« Reply #26 on: 06/26/07 at 19:27:43 » |
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On a serious note: What is up with Cantabria and the "alicorn"/"alicornio", the unicorn with wings on its fetlocks? I've seen it before on other Spanish sites.
On a less serious note: OH EM GEE! THE DUENDE IS REALLYZ A SHIKIGAMI lawl lawl lawl!!!1!!! AND DEZ CUINES ARE ZASHIKI CHIBIS!!! I IS SOS CLEVAR!!111!!! WHAT OTHER SPANISH SPIRITZ ARE REALLYZ YOUKAI??!!??
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Re: Monsters in Spanish Legends
« Reply #27 on: 06/26/07 at 20:24:56 » |
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Well, la muere mesada seems to be the name for the grim reaper ( in Germany we call him Sensemann or Gevatter Tod Note: Sense= scythe mann=man Gevatter= gaffer and Tod= death
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« Reply #28 on: 06/27/07 at 13:30:48 » |
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Dam it! You got to stop posting more links to cantabrian folklore sites; I keep finding more monsters to translate…
It’s interesting, Cantabria was practically unknown to me until recently, I had no idea it had such a vast array of monsters. I’m a bit suspicious; maybe not all of these monsters are specific to Cantabria, but also to other nearby regions of Spain. I mean… it’s so small… one other possibility could be that maybe they never gave to much trouble to Castile and there was never an active attack to Cantabrian culture, like happened to other regions, like Galicia.
Some more, still Cantabria:
Las Ijanas del Valle de Aras (the Ijanas of the valley of the Aras)
Gluttonous and troublesome feminine spirits those steal honey from beehives and food from houses. They are always naked and have such long breasts that they have to put them over their right shoulder. Saint Pantaleón once decided to get rid of them, felling the caves were they live with fire, but after a short wile the Ijanas emerged from the cave and caught fire to all the houses in the vicinities, starting with the Saint’s, because, even if they are not aggressive, they are very vengeful creatures.
The Mozas del Agua (Water girls)
Beautiful little being that inhabit fountains and rivers, which are recognized by a shining star on their foreheads. They walk barefoot, and dress themselves with silver capes, and at dawn they spend their time tending to golden hanks that they weave during the night. It is said that if a young man is able to take a single fibre from these hanks the Mozas will catch him and drag him to their underground palaces, to marry the prettiest of them.
Osa de Ándara (the bear [feminine] of Ándara)
A cantabrian bear-woman that lives in the region of Andara, terrorizing its inhabitants. During the summer she lives in the Granjal and Mancodio and, as winter approaches she moves to the caves of the Hermida canyon. As the weather gets worst the cold and the snow forces her to go to the lower lands of Andara. She is said to be very brave and strong, attacking anyone that bothers her.
Her face is like a woman’s but wrinkled and burnt by the sun. Her features are distorted by her animal aspect, her hair is uncombed and black as coal, her arms and legs are also covered in hair, like a bear. She covers herself with a ragged dress and goat skins.
She lives on milk, chestnuts, roots and corn, it is also said that she has a herd of sheep that she stole. It is also said that she sometimes captures a new born mountain goat that she raises and domesticates, that she does not eat unless she find one to replace him.
La serenuca (mermaid... kinda)
The most beautiful of girls from Castro Urdiales, which used to climb the most dangerous cliffs so as to sing in tune with the waves of the sea. Because of this she was turned into a woman with fish tail.
El Hombre Pez (the fish man)
A long time ago ( XVI century according to one site) a sixteen year old boy born in Liérganes disappeared in the waters of a river. Sometime lather he was found by fishermen in high sea, his lower half was covered with scales and he had lost the ability to speak.
Hechiceras de Valderredible (sorceresses of Valderredible)
These are very beautiful and kind fairies, similar to the Anjanas. They have long black hair that they decorate with crowns of corn cobs and always walk barefooted, spreading joy and wealth. They are frequent in the silence of ruins, the peace of lost trails and in streams and creaks.
Viejuca de Vispieres
An old and harmless old witch, crocked and wrinkled, that walks in the meadows on full moons supporting herself in a gold cane with a silver tip, that is always shiny and clean, even is she crosses mud puddles.
She wears a bright red cape, and weasel skin sandals.
Eternally lonely, she turns herself invisible if anyone sees her in on of her nightly strolls.
The Cuegle
A short and fat creature with three arms, five rows of teeth and a horn on his head. He never gets tired of eating; using his great strength to devour every creature he can reach. He even eats little children, gobbling them up with cradle included, unless they have a twig of oak and holly whose leaves the monster finds repulsive.
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« Reply #30 on: 06/28/07 at 06:21:35 » |
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Cool, I had realized that many of the pictures I found on Cantabrian critters were from a much bigger picture, because you could see little bits of other monsters around the main one.
I’m seriously thinking about getting me some of these…it even has the monster descriptions below.
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« Reply #31 on: 06/28/07 at 06:44:55 » |
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It seems that every creature from the poster is also on the link I have found. Do you have to be located in spain to order something from this page or is it okay if you are from another European country.?
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« Reply #32 on: 06/28/07 at 08:30:24 » |
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It’s a bit confusing, I did a little research there, and in the new account page there is a section where you have to select your country, and only Spain is available, but then again I found this in another section:
“Los precios son para envíos realizados a territorio español, para otros destinos consultar.”
Meaning something like: the prices are for shipments inside the Spanish territory, for other destinations contact us.
So guess other countries need to contact them.
This is the contact page: http://www.loscantabros.com/catalogo/contact_us.php
The spaces are, from the top:
Complete name:
Your Email:
Message:
In case you want to contact them.
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« Reply #33 on: 06/28/07 at 15:32:01 » |
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I wish they had posters like that in America. If they did, I bet it would be just sightings of Bigfoot though. Oh well...
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« Reply #34 on: 07/02/07 at 13:01:18 » |
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OK, so this is the rest of the Cantabrian monsters:
Guajona
This is the terror of cantabrian children; she is a vampire woman that looks like a week old woman all dressed in black. She has one single long and sharp teeth that she uses to drink the blood of rosy children, that she needs to live, living the children week and pale. During the day she hides under the earth and only comes out during the night to search for her victims.
Arquetu
An old man with long red hair and a green cross in his forehead, surrounded with keys and looks. He dresses in a white robe with purple spots and always carries with him a golden chest and a hand bag and teaches the folk not to squander their riches and lose their money in games of chance, which he hates.
During his voyages when he finds someone that has lost their properties in gambling the merciful Arquetu will give him some gold, but always with the condition that that money be used to get their lost properties back, otherwise, if they spend this money on gabling, they become condemned to beg for the rest of their lives
Pécu
This is a bird that announces the coming of spring and that knows which girls will be wed and which will not. He leaves Cantabria around Saint John’s Eve with a cherry on his beak. It is said that he was a very bad and disobedient kid, constantly distracted in school where he only learned the letter “p” and “q”. As a punishment he was transformed into a cuckoo bird that can only say the two letters he learned “Pe-cu, pe-cu, pe-cu”
Monuca
An animal that looks like a marten with multicoloured skin, the head is white, the body red, blue and black and the tail purple. This creature is born from the crossing of a mountain cat and a marten
It’s a fierce and ill tempered animal, for as soon he is born he leaves his den, returning some time lather to kill the marten that gave birth to him, and because of this the Monuca is forever chased by its father mountain cat, that when find the Monuca kills it.
Sierpe de Peñacastillo
This is terrible a half man half serpent monster. It is said that King Felipe the second believed that the Cueva del Tesoro de Peñacastillo (the treasure cave of Peñacastillo) stored a huge treasure, guarded by this Serpe.
The king prepared an expedition lead by an Italian mage, to fight the monster, but the expedition was shortly lived because when the mage entered the cave he panicked and ran like hell.
Hechiceras del Ebro (sorceresses of the Ebro)
Basically the same as the Hechiceras de Valderredible but specific to the river Ebro. Kind and beautiful fairies that frequent the silence of the ruins near this river. With long black hair that they crown with corn cobs, always walking bare foot spreading joy and wealth in the poor and lonely places.
Alicornio
A white horse with deer feel and lion tail. His head is purple, his eyes blue and in his forehead he has a long horn, white near the root, black in the middle and red in the tip. Because of this horn he is know in other places and unicornio (unicorn), but this one has the particularity of having some tiny wings above its huffs, so it is called Alicornio. This then explains his amazing speed.
It is said that he lives in the most inaccessible places of the mountains, where it is always sunny because it is above the crowds. He only drinks water from the purest fountains and eats fresh flowers.
The only way of caching one was to use a beautiful and pure damsel as bait. The Alicornio would slowly gat close and in the right moment the hunters could jump and kill him. The one that then drank from his horn, after it had been turned into a drinking horn, would be immune to poison and any other evil.
Lantarón
Lantarón is the king of the sea that bathes Cantabria. His feet are huge and webbed, he was a robust and muscular body, bronzy-green coloured skin, like sea weed, his hands are robust and with thick skin, his head is oval with big bulging green eyes
Lantarón only comes to land in the low tide to rest on a prominent rock, where he stains motionless, like a statue, contemplation the coming and going of the waves. He only eats octopuses, that he kills by hitting them against the rooks and then eats them slowly and patiently as he looks upon his kingdom. He caries a strong walking stick of elderberry, whose black barriers, mixed with siren milk make a potion that makes him florescent and gives him special powers.
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And the last one:
Roblón
This creature is even bigger that an Ojáncano. The Roblón used to be a very old and normal oak (roble), with a huge hole in its trunk. During a storm a beautiful girl took refuge in the hole in his trunk. Wet and cold she pushed against the walls of the hole, and the oak, feeling her body and her breath, began to feel its sap running faster and faster and ended up killing the girl and a mortal embrace. The oak then absorbed the body and life of that young body and stated to grow immensely, taking all the ground, water and sap from the other trees to himself.
So the Roblón become a huge creature, his long hair is made of dry grass, falling from him highest branches to the ground, his forehead is rugged like a cactus, his nose is a branch, his beard is a made of heather shrubs, from under his head grow birch trunks that are his arms. His legs are robust, made of ash trees, the only oak that his left in him are his mandibles and heart.
His eyes are the ones from the beautiful girl.
After this transformation the Roblón started to move. His steps make the woods tremble, his breath shakes the trees and his shadow his like a huge crowd. He destroys anything in his steps, cabins, fences, walls and, mainly, fountains, that his roots drink dry.
Next I’ll do the Basque stuff, but that could take a wile, the exams have returned and I won’t have that much free time in the next three weeks, but I’ll try to squeeze some translation in between them.
By the way, the English wikipedia also has a Basque mythology section, so naturaly I’ll only translate the entries that are not already present in this one.
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« Reply #36 on: 07/02/07 at 13:47:52 » |
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The alicornio has the same appearance that the Greek writer Ktesias gave to the unicorns of India, except for the wings above the hooves. Also, the Indian unicorns have ankle bones the color of cinnabar (a rich, reddish brown similar to cinnamon). St. John's Eve, which is mentioned in a couple entries, is June 23rd. St. John's Day, the modern Midsummer Day, is June 24th.
Of the Basque creatures in the English wiki: basajaunak (wild men of the woods who introduced agriculture and built megaliths), sorginak (witch-priestesses of the goddess Mari), galtzagorriak (imps with red pants, similar to trasgos), Gaueko (a black wolfhound who is cannibalistic and walks upright), Herensuge (a specific dragon or cuelebre), iratxoak (helpful imps or duende, which include the galtzagorriak), jentilak (stone-throwing and smithing giants credited with many caves and stone monuments), lamiak or laminak (nymphs or sirens with bird feet), mairuak or intxisuak (giants who built stone circles and associated with the lamiak), Odei (personification/genie of thunder and storm clouds), Olentzero (a kind jentil who is seen at Christmas), San Martin (a trickster who stole knowledge of agriculture from the basajaunak and invented saws), and Tartalo (a one-eyed giant similar to the Greek Polyphemos).
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« Reply #37 on: 07/02/07 at 13:53:35 » |
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These Spanish creatures sound pretty awesome. But whenever I hear detailed descriptions like these I always wonder if there's some scholarly source somewhere that backs them up. I wish such things weren't so damn hard to track down. 
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Re: Monsters in Spanish Legends
« Reply #38 on: 07/02/07 at 13:56:56 » |
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If I could get Spanish-language, Spanish-cultural folklore books through Amazon or something I would. Alas, I have no euros. If only I knew ahead of time to tell my sister to buy me a folklore book when she went to Spain! However, my other sister has plans to revisit there...
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Re: Monsters in Spanish Legends
« Reply #39 on: 07/02/07 at 15:51:03 » |
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By the way: There seems to be something strange with the moon and the sun as well. For me it looks like as if the moon is populated by the death.
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