Case file · Folklore / legend
Ojáncanu, the Cantabrian cyclops
A one-eyed giant with a red beard who uproots trees and kills cattle in the Cantabrian mountains, first set down in print by the writer Manuel Llano in the 1930s.
1934 CE · 43.17, -4.30 · status: legend
The account
His one weakness is a single white hair in his beard; pulling it out kills him. His female counterpart is the Ojáncana.
Connections in the atlas
- The one-eyed Cyclopes of Sicily