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According to Galician mythology and Asturian mythology, the Mouros are a race of supernatural beings which inhabited the lands of Galicia and Asturias since the beginning of time. For unknown reasons they were forced to take refuge under the earth, and now they are usually seen by people in the surroundings of castros and long barrows. The Mouros work with gold, silver and gem stones with which they make up enormous treasures that are protected by cuélebres.
The Mouros do not usually go out of their dwellings, except for taking food, and also in special dates like Midsummer.
Galician anthropologists had formed the theory that the Mouros are the oppossite character of traditional galician peasant.
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