{"id":2239,"date":"2020-07-10T12:48:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T11:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=2239"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:07:06","slug":"moura-floripes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/iberian-mythology\/moura-floripes\/","title":{"rendered":"Moura Floripes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2239\" class=\"elementor elementor-2239\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8e1cc7c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8e1cc7c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-10ad353\" 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data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p>This is the story of Floripes the Moor, said Moura Floripes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5284 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"The Moor Floripes\" width=\"25\" height=\"26\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/iberian-mythology\/moura-floripes\/#Le-maure-Floripes\" >The Moor Floripes<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Le-maure-Floripes\"><\/span>The Moor Floripes<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>On the site of \u201cMoinho do Sobrado\u201d, a water mill, which was located on the banks of Olh\u00e3o, in the Algarve, there was once a house where a beautiful woman appeared one night, all dressed in white.<\/p>\n<p>In those days, the only one who dared to walk in these secluded places at night was a middle-aged man named Z\u00e9. One evening when he was drunk on his way home, he fell asleep near the mill, without any fear.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The woman dressed all in white approached the man, stroked his face and sat down next to him.<\/p>\n<p>Z\u00e9 told his story without convincing anyone to come to the mill to prove that he was telling the truth. However, Z\u00e9 had a younger friend who was getting married soon. Taking advantage of the event, Z\u00e9 promised his friend to offer him his own land as a wedding gift, if he had the courage to accompany him to the scene in the hope of seeing the apparition of the woman dressed in white again. .<\/p>\n<p>Transfixed with fear, the young man, named Juli\u00e3o (Jullien) nevertheless set off on an adventure, strongly imagining what he would do with his wonderful wedding gift<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The young man sat on a rock, next to the Sobrado mill, and waited for the twelve strokes of the midnight bells as indicated by Z\u00e9. At that moment, a woman appeared from the mill door, dressed all the way to her feet in white. Her dress ended in a ragged hem, barely covering her bare feet. The woman with her face wrapped in a veil and a flower in her blond hair approached him.<\/p>\n<p>Juli\u00e3o, Z\u00e9&#039;s friend, asked her who she was and where she came from.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am the miserable Floripes,\u201d she replied, sadly.<br \/>- What are you doing here ?<br \/>\u2013 I am the enchanted Moorish woman. (A moura encantada) When my people were expelled from this province, my father was forced to flee without any possibility of taking me with him. My lover also quickly fled, and I was left alone. Since then, I have been waiting every moment for my father to come and pick me up. One night, while I was waiting, I saw the light of a boat in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a stormy night and the boat ran aground against the cliffs. It wasn&#039;t my father coming to look for me: it was my boyfriend, who was &quot;swallowed&quot; by the waves. My father learned of this event, and seeing that he was not able to come and get me, he \u201cenchanted\u201d me to protect me. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Juli\u00e3o, saddened by this story, immediately thought of sacrificing himself to save the beautiful Moorish woman and asked:<br \/>\u2013 Is there any possibility of saving you?<br \/>\u2013 Yes, it\u2019s possible, replied the Moor.<br \/>\u2013 In what way?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is necessary for a young man to embrace me, at the edge of a river, and make a \u201ccut\u201d on my arm at the level of my heart. The moment this is done, I will go straight to my parents. But there is a difficulty.<br \/>\u2013 What difficulty? Juli\u00e3o asked, already ready to be his liberator.<br \/>\u2013 The man who hugs me and \u201churts\u201d me will have to accompany me to Africa, he will have to cross the ocean with two lit candles without them going out and marry me on arrival\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, I couldn\u2019t do it!\u201d I am already committed to marrying my little Aninhas. \u00bb<br \/>\u201cThen I will stay here with my enchantment,\u201d she replied, sobbing, because until now, no one has dared to make such sacrifices!<\/p>\n<p>The Moorish woman remained in her enchantment for a long time, sitting on the pier with her feet in the water, waiting for her father to return from Africa to look for her. Sometimes she was seen near the watermill, always at night, chatting with a young boy with big eyes and a red hat...<\/p>\n<p>Could it be a young Moorish boy who was also enchanted at this place? No one could answer...<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Some older \u201cOlhanenses\u201d believed so much in this <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/\">legend<\/a> that they said of Floripes that she appeared during the day, in town, where she always paid for her purchases with a gold coin and disappeared without waiting for her change.<\/p>\n<p>Even today, when someone does not take their change when making a purchase, they are told \u201cYou are like Floripes, you don\u2019t want your change!\u201d \u00bb<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Moorish Floripes was also the incarnation of the fear of the transcendent. When a person speaks of the afterlife with fear, or arrogance. He is often told: \u201cBe careful, you might meet Floripes!\u201d \u00bb<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jos\u00e9 Barbosa tells in his <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/book-libraries\/\">book<\/a> (Barbosa, 1993) this curious story, occurring during the First World War: in a trench in Flanders defended by Portuguese soldiers, one winter night, two \u201cOlhanenses\u201d (soldiers from Olhao) who were on sentry saw emerge from the snow an entirely white silhouette of a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Their fear of seeing the Moorish Floripes paralyzed them for a moment, preventing them from pulling the trigger! This was the necessary and sufficient time to understand that the figure in front of them was not an enemy soldier. And this is how the Moorish Floripes saved the life of a young Belgian woman who was fleeing to escape the Germans!<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this rescue finally lifted Floripes&#039; enchantment?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Because since then, the Moorish Floripes has ceased to appear\u2026.<br \/>Did she finally return to her land?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mythologie Ib\u00e9rique Wiki Voici l&rsquo;histoire de Floripes le maure, dit Moura Floripes. 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