{"id":2243,"date":"2020-07-10T12:53:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T11:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=2243"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:07:06","slug":"les-creatures-de-cantabrie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/iberian-mythology\/the-creatures-of-cantabria\/","title":{"rendered":"The creatures of Cantabria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2243\" class=\"elementor elementor-2243\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-79844b8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"79844b8\" 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 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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>Along with the telluric deities and nature, Cantabria had, as in the popular traditions of other regions, fabulous and varied beings, adored or feared, and about whom stories and legends were based: the creatures of Cantabria.<\/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=\"Cantabrian creatures\" 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 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href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythes-et-legendes-grecques-1664\/\">Greek<\/a>. The single eye of this cyclops is red and glows in the night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>L&#039;<em>ojancanu<\/em> refers to many similar creatures existing in several <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/\">mythologies<\/a> Indo-Europeans. This huge monster covered in hairs and warts lives in the most inaccessible corners of the mountains of Cantabria. It feeds on sheep and cows. His strength is such that he can lift almost anything.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>L&#039;<em>ojancana<\/em> Where <em>juancana<\/em>\u00a0: this ogress is the partner of the<em>ojancanu<\/em>. L&#039;<em>ojancana<\/em> resembles his male equivalent but his face lacks a beard; its strength is as important as that of the male. She is more cruel than her husband, she feeds on humans, mainly lost children.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>anjana<\/em>\u00a0: Antithesis of the two previous ones, it is a good and generous fairy, protector of honest people, lovers and those who get lost in the forests and on the roads. Small pale and winged being of less than a meter, the <em>anjana<\/em> has a soft voice, slanted eyes and blue or black pupils.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A <em>anjana<\/em> lives four centuries, it can make itself invisible. Comparable mythological creatures are found in Asturias, in the Land <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/basque-mythology\/\">Basque<\/a> as well as in Galicia.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <em>duendes<\/em>\u00a0: this category includes all the small beings of Cantabrian mythology, comparable to mischievous and mocking goblins most of the time. They have a human figure and are about the size of a small child. It is necessary to distinguish among them the <em>duendes<\/em> servants, who live in and around houses (<em>trasgos<\/em> and <em>trastolillos<\/em>), and those who live in the woods (<em>thirty<\/em>, <em>tentirujos<\/em> and <em>zahoris<\/em>). The etymology refers to &quot;\u00a0<em>dueno<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb, that is to say to the inhabitant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>There are many other fabulous beings inhabiting this rich region, such as the <em>Ventolin<\/em>, the <em>Osa de Andara<\/em>, the <em>Caballucos del Diablu<\/em> (riders of the devil), the <em>numbers<\/em>, the <em>Musgosu<\/em>, the <em>Culebre<\/em>, the <em>Ramidreju<\/em>. But there are also other important legends: that of the <em>Sirenuca<\/em>, a beautiful, disobedient and capricious young girl who climbs the most dangerous cliffs of Castro-Urdiales to sing to the rhythm of the waves, and who is transformed into a sea nymph due to her behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The legend of the fish-man of Li\u00e9rganes tells the story of a swimming-loving young man who got lost in the Miera River and was eventually found in the Bay of Cadiz as a strange aquatic being. .<\/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 En m\u00eame temps que les divinit\u00e9s telluriques et la nature, la Cantabrie a eu, comme dans les &hellip; <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2187,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2243","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24748,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2243\/revisions\/24748"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}