In the parish of Santa Eulália de Arnoso, municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão, at the foot of the hill commonly known as Santa Baia. near the Ponte do Olhoiro bridge, which crosses a rocky stream, there is a cave that the people, since ancient times, have named - Buraco do
Scout.
The Hole of the Looker is a subterranean path that is approximately a quarter of a league up to the Palhares hill, where there used to be a Moorish castle, and by the way, stones and bricks from the castle can still be found there. "But Jesus! It was a long time ago: I heard him tell my mother (may God speak in his soul) that her father already told him
Now, as I was saying, there lived in this parish, in the times of the pagans and the Moors, a farmer who had a herd of oxen that he sent to graze there at the foot of the Hole of the Lookout.
One of the cows came from the hill, always fuller than the others, but what he admired was that the cow had a calf, and when she went to court she never brought milk.
The farmer suspected that they were taking him out that way, and, after that, he went to look out and saw that the cow had entered the Hole in the Hole, and when she was already far away, he ran after her and even grabbed her tail. . The cow went and went, going under the subterranean, and when it got there to the foot of the hill
Palhares, began to graze in a meadow of rich grass.
Meanwhile, the Moors and many Moors appeared, who said nothing to the farmer, who was blessed by what he saw... One of the Moors went to milk the cow, but the farmer never untied himself from the tail, if he wasn't enchanted there.
The cow, after grazing until it was satisfied, left and the farmer followed her, still tied up, and when he got home he told his wife everything, but he was so haggard that after three days he died.
That's how it became known that there are Moorish and enchanted Moorish people in the Hole of the Lookout; much wealth and even golden bells, which the little man (God rest his soul) saw inside.
Even today, no young man, even if he is a bully, dares to spend the night near the Hole of the Lookout because bad things and sorcery stop there.
Source: Abílio de Magalhães Brandão
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