In Cantabrian regional tradition the ramidreju is described as a rare animal born once every hundred years, reportedly born from a weasel or a marten. Sources present it as a localized folkloric beast of the Cantabrian landscape rather than as part of a larger religious cosmology.
Folk descriptions portray the ramidreju as resembling a weasel or marten with an elongated, serpent-like body. Its coat is said to be soft and slightly green-tinted; at least one source records yellow eyes. The snout is compared to that of a hog and it bears boar-like tusks which are described as adapted for digging. Sources emphasize elongation and weasel-like proportions rather than precise measurements, implying a relatively small-to-medium, long-bodied creature.
Folkloric attributions include a pelt whose fur is said to heal every sickness and an instinct or power to seek out gold and treasures. The animal is also described as a proficient digger that uses its tusks to excavate very deep holes and is said to live in deep, mole-like burrows. These properties (healing fur, treasure-seeking, centennial birth from a weasel or marten) are presented in the sources as traditional attributions rather than verified facts.
Aernus
Aernus is a theonym attested in a small number of Roman-period inscriptions from the vicinity of Bragança (north-eastern Portugal). Scholarly discussion treats Aernus as a local or regional deity within the Lusitanian and Gallaecian pantheons, probably serving as a protector of a specific tribal group (the Zoelae) in a limited territorial horizon.
Anjana
Anjanas are benevolent female fairy beings in Cantabrian popular belief who protect forests, springs, animals and people, aid the poor and lost, leave gifts for the generous, and oppose the hostile Ojáncanu. Oral tradition presents them either as heavenly agents sent by God with a limited earthly term or as spirits of trees who care for the woodland.
Arquetu
A Cantabrian popular-belief figure depicted as an old man marked with a green cross and seven keys on his forehead who intervenes in human economic affairs by lending money to prodigals and punishing repeat wastefulness with a curse of eternal poverty.
Bandua
Bandua is a theonym attested in Roman‑period epigraphic sources from north‑west Iberia (Galaico‑Lusitanian area). The name appears with many localizing epithets and is reconstructed by scholars as a local tutelary or protective divine figure (or a set of closely related local figures) with occasional Roman syncretism to Mars.
Batea
Batea is a polysemous term found in scientific, geographic, material-culture, mythological, and modern technical contexts. In the supplied sources it appears as a genus of amphipod crustaceans, two named figures in Greek mythology (without further detail in these sources), a municipality in Catalonia, a traditional gold-panning pan, and as the name/acronym of contemporary technical and policy documents.
Caballucos del Diablu
In Cantabrian tradition the Caballucos del Diablu are supernatural horses—described as the damned souls of sinners—that are said to appear on the night of St John (June 23). They form part of a regional bestiary of fantastic beings and are linked to Christian notions of sin, punishment, and the annual bonfire rites.
Cantabrian Neptune
A Roman-name sea-deity invoked in ritual contexts along the Cantabrian coast; attested in fragmentary sources as the sacred agent associated with the open sea in local ritual taxonomy rather than a richly attested autonomous Cantabrian personality.
Carassa de Barcelona
No reliable information about a folkloric or supernatural entity called 'Carassa de Barcelona' is present in the supplied sources. References in the materials relate to Barcelona's street naming, Christmas markets, and neighborhood culture, but none document an entity by this name.
Catalina Lercaro
Catalina Lercaro is the legendary specter associated with a 16th‑century member of the Genoese Lercaro family who allegedly died by suicide in the family mansion (Casa Lercaro) in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife. Tradition holds her ghost walks through the rooms of the mansion (now the Museum of History and Anthropology of Tenerife) and she is widely regarded in local lore as the Canary Islands' most famous ghost.
Corocotta
Corocotta is a name attested in two related registers: a Cantabrian legendary/historical human figure remembered as a guerrilla leader or bandit active during the late 1st century BC, and a classical natural-history term for an exotic canid/felid‑like beast (often equated with the spotted hyena) described in Greco‑Roman literature. The two usages overlap by name but represent distinct traditions—local oral memory of resistance and wider Roman wonder‑literature about exotic animals.
Cuegle
The cuegle is a monstrous figure from Cantabrian (northern Spain) folklore: a small, bipedal humanoid with grotesque features that attacks people and livestock and is reputed to steal babies from cradles. Household protection recorded in sources is placing oak or holly leaves in the cradle, which the creature is said to find repulsive.
Cuélebre
A legendary long‑lived reptilian guardian from Asturian and Cantabrian folklore, depicted as a giant winged serpent or dragon that inhabits caves and watery liminal places, guards treasure, and is sometimes said to hold xanas (fairy‑like beings) captive. Folktales attribute to it senescent physical changes, a miraculous healing byproduct, and specific folkloric countermeasures.
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