• This name is called a cyclops or evil genius with one eye on the forehead, whose main task is grazing.

Who is called Tartalo in Zegama

region, appears in the most terrifying stories Basque households.

Mith-One day, while two brothers of the Antimuño farm

were hunting, a storm broke, so they decided to take refuge from the rain in a cave, which was Tartalo's cave.

Soon after, Tartalo appeared with his flock of sheep. He saw the two brothers and said: "one for today and the other for tomorrow".

• While he was sleeping, the youngest brother stole Tartalo's ring and then he stuck the roasting spit in

his only eye.

• He started to look for the boy among his sheep, but he put on a sheep's skin and escaped from Tartalo. But, unluckily, when he got out of the flock of sheep, the accuser ring started to shout: "Here I am, here I am!".

• Tartalo got out of his cave and he started to run after the ring, hearing its shouts. The young one wasn't able to take off the ring, so, when he arrived to the edge of a cliff, he cut off his finger, and since Tartalo was near, he decided to throw it down the cliff. Tartalo, following the ring's shouting, fell off the cliff.