The document summarizes the folklore surrounding Lamiak, a type of mythical creature from Basque mythology. Lamiak appear as beautiful blonde-haired women but have webbed duck feet. They inhabit bodies of water like rivers and springs. One story tells of a shepherd who falls in love with a Lamiak after hearing her sing, but discovers she has duck feet and realizes she is not human. Heartbroken, the shepherd dies of grief while the Lamiak cries for her lost love, causing a spring to form from her tears.

1. Lamiak

2. Its most usual aspect is that of a beautiful woman of
long blonde hair. But they are not a normal woman they have duck foots

3. They like water very much. They inhabit the banks of rivers,
lagoons, backwaters of streams and springs,
although they also frequent the caves.

5. Often, they wash clothes in the river at night,
spin with spinning wheel and spindle, and build dolmens.
But the activity that pleases them most is to use a comb
of gold to comb her long blond hair.

6. A shepherd climbed the mountain with his flock and heard such a wonderful song, He forgot the sheep and went
to the place where the voice came from. When he separated some bushes he saw something that left him
speechless. On a rock Nestled in the middle of a river sat the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. His hair was
long and blond, his eyes the color of water and he combed his hair with a gold comb. while singing a strange
melody. Suddenly in love he asked her to marry him, and she agreed. He went down to the crazy people with
happiness and told his mother that he had met the most wonderful woman in the world and he was going to marry
her. The mother, scared, asked advice to his neighbors and finally an elder advised him to tell his son to look the
feet of the maid before making a decision. "If she's lamia, she'll have her feet like ducks," he said. The young man
promised that he would look at his beautiful girlfriend's feet and ran to the mountain. Her lover was bathing and
fiddling with the fish, entering and leaving the water as a dolphin, and his laughter was like the sound of a
thousand bells, but ... alas! The feet of the girl They looked like duck legs ... They were definitely duck legs! In a
great sadness, the pastor returned to his house, got into bed and became ill. The fever made him delirious, he saw
the face of his beloved and listened to his voice calling him: "zatoz, maitea, zatoz" ("come, dear, come"). But He
never came back, because he died of grief. On the day of the burial the lamia went to her lover's house,
approached the bed, covered it with a sheet of gold and kissed her cold lips. He followed the procession to the
church, but, like everything the world knows, the lamias can not enter the churches, and then he returned to the
mountain and He cried for his lost love. So much and so much he wept that, in the place where his tears fell a
spring arose