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The North of Portugal is a place of superstition, usually more extreme than the tradicional broken mirrors ou black cats

that cross the way of unlucky people. They are almost always stories that were born of the places that the locals know

like the palm of their hands. To tourists it sounds like magic tales.

In 2007, students from the Tradição Oral da Universidade do Algarve collected in Ponte de Lima one of those stories to

the Arquivos do Centro de Estudos Ataíde Oliveira, thanks to the memory of Magda Pereira, local of that beautiful city,

that told them, with accent, that in her land there is a river that cries!

"There was a day that i was in the river of Ponte da Barca that is the Lima river and ... a lady with a certain age

told me that if a person puts their ear inside the water of the river can ear it cry ... if it cries it's a bad sign,

it means the river is about to kill someone. Every year, according to that woman, that at least one person as to die for

the river ...for the river to stop crying and be happy. (...)."

- 101 Places To Fear In Portugal