Mythological Figures
Among the figures of Catalan mythology are:
- Aloja - In Catalan mythology an Aloja, also known as Dona d'aigua, Goja or Paitida, is a feminine being that lives in places with fresh water. This "water-woman" can turn into water blackbirds.
- Bubota
- Catalan mythology about witches - Catalan tradition distinguished between bruixeria ("witchcraft") based on an explicit compact with the Devil, and fetilleria (deriving from a word related to "fetish", and Old Portuguese feitiço); magic worked through charms and fetishes. The former was considered inherently evil, the latter might include the working of magical cures. In Catalan popular culture, there are a large number of legends about witches. In the popular imagination, a witch is a woman who, by means of a pact with the Devil, has acquired supernatural power, which she uses for her own benefit and for evil purposes.
- Carnestoltes
- Cocollona
- Conde Arnau
- Conde Estruch
- Cucafera
- Dip - In Catalan myth, Dip is an evil, black, hairy dog, an emissary of the Devil, who sucks people's blood.
- Dona d'aigua - In Catalan mythology an Aloja, also known as Dona d'aigua, Goja or Paitida, is a feminine being that lives in places with fresh water. This "water-woman" can turn into water blackbirds.
- Donyet
- Dragons
- Drac (a dragon, generally male)
- Víbria (specifically female)
- Encantaria
- Follet
- Gambutzí
- Goja - In Catalan mythology an Aloja, also known as Dona d'aigua, Goja or Paitida, is a feminine being that lives in places with fresh water. This "water-woman" can turn into water blackbirds.
- Fada - Hada
- Home del sac (man of the sack)
- Home dels nassos (man of the noses)
- Marraco
- Martinet
- Minairó
- El Moro Musa
- Negret
- Paitida - In Catalan mythology an Aloja, also known as Dona d'aigua, Goja or Paitida, is a feminine being that lives in places with fresh water. This "water-woman" can turn into water blackbirds.
- Papu
- Peix Nicolau - Peje Nicolao
- Pellofa
- Pesanta
- Peix Nicolau
- Puigmal
- Tió de Nadal
- The Three Wise Men or Tres Reis Mags d'Orient
- Page Gregory
- Page Fumera
- Tombatossals
- Vella Quaresma
- Víbria
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