Besides short stints in Ourense and Vigo, all of my time in Galicia has been in very small towns in the mountains. Twice I have been fortunate enough to be there on market day in the little town of Viana do Bolo. It is my most vivid memory of Galicia.

The gypsies come in with their wagons full of clothing, hardware, meat and produce and clothing. Arriving with them are the pulpo vendors, who set themselves up outside restaurants with their huge copper pots and propane burners. You order your octopus, then head inside to get your bread, potatoes and wine and gaseosa (not La Casera, but the local stuff) and sit family style with the rest of the locals. The vendor brings in your pulpo and you get to add your own oil, pimenton and sal gordo. This is not your typical 12 euro, 8 pieces of Madrid tapas, but a huge, heaping, steaming mound!

The way I understand it, the market/pulpo caravan arrives in small towns all across Galicia on the same day each month. If you are fortunate enough to run into it, don't pass it up!

My second most vivid memory is being summoned from my room to help a dozen other men unload a lumber truck of 20 foot, 12 x 12 inch wooden beams for a carpenter, destined to refurbish a local church!

WOW. Speaking of the subject at hand, there's a website that you might want to see. It talks about Iberian-Visigothic Elves (which in my own opinion are ancient stories of alien visitations ) and other types of creatures such as Xanas, Cuélebres, and Trasgus.

Iberian-Visigothic Elves

I was just wondering why you had put the " ", nada más. Interesting info on Castro I might add.