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Overview

Catherine Elizondo’s Tabakiera makes the south wind the final source of information in a traveller’s search for a stolen palace. The moon directs the man to the sun, and the sun explains that the wind reaches corners outside its own sight. At the wind’s house, its mother is filling numerous barrels with water and warns that her son eats everything when arriving hungry and furious. She hides the traveller beneath a staircase.

The south wind arrives forcefully enough to seem to threaten the house, thirsty and aware of a human scent. Its mother asks it to eat and drink first and explains the visitor’s losses. The wind then hears the man’s description and recognises the palace: it has passed over it that very day without being able to remove a tile. It locates the building on the far side of the Red Sea, enabling the man’s continued journey and eventual recovery. No bodily measurements or wings are given to this personification.

Personified south windMother’s householdHuman scent recognitionExtreme thirstReaches hidden placesLocates the lost palace
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Origins & earliest records

Wentworth Webster, Basque Legends, Tabakiera, the Snuff-Box, pp. 97–100. Named narrator: Catherine Elizondo.

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Records & interpretation

Complete attributed historical tale locates the action and its ending. Appearance and identity are limited to what this specific witness states.

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    Basque Legends: Tabakiera, the Snuff-Box, pp. 97–100

    Catherine Elizondo; collected and translated by Wentworth Webster · 1879, second edition

    Full selected tale read; final identity reveal and outcomes retained.

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  1. Primary historical collected narrativeWebster: Tabakiera, the Snuff-BoxResearch access: 2026-10-05

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