Galician, Asturian, PortugueseNorthwest IberiaRace

Mouros

Also known as: mouros encantados, moura encantada, mouras, mourinhos, xentís

Basic account

Builders of the megaliths of north-west Iberia: unbaptised people of the earth whose name may mean the dead.

Account

They raised the standing stones in a single night, and their name may mean the dead.

Motifs

The giant as builder
The people who came before
Ended by Christianity

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What is disputed

Whether the mouros are properly giants at all is an open question in the same tradition that uses the name.

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Sources

Isidoro Millán on the etymology

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