Streets of Granada

According to the urban legend of Granada (Andalusia), a ghostly horse called El Belludo can be found on the old streets of the city in the vanguard of a pack of demonic dogs.

Thomas Janvier pointed out the parallels of this legend with the Mexican one Vaca de Lumbre, as well as the existence of a similar legend among the Basques, where we are talking about a ghostly, flaming cow.

In Juan de Echevarria's book "Walking in Granada and its surroundings":

One night at one o'clock, he found one of these two ferocious animals," he says, "and he doesn't know if it was a Headless Horse or a Belludo, but he is inclined to believe that it was the latter, because it seemed to him that it had fur and no hair. He led a procession of invisible horses that could only be felt by the sound of their footsteps. As soon as he felt the proximity of the spirit, he grabbed the saber he was carrying and struck it three or four times. The spirit may have been scared when it saw the weapon and went on its way.

Washington Irving in the famous work "Tales of the Alhambra" mentions only Belludo, ignoring the headless horse:

Under the Tower of Seven Floors (is) the same place from where Belludo leaves at midnight and walks through the streets of Granada, pursued by a pack of hellhounds.

In "The Tale of Two Humble Statues":

..There was a monstrous remnant or ghost hidden there, which was said to have lived in this tower since the time of the Moors and guarded the treasures of a certain Muslim monarch. He also added to me that he sometimes went out at midnight and walked along the avenues of the Alhambra and the streets of Granada in the form of a headless horse, chased by six dogs that made terrible barking and frightening howling...

Sometimes this indomitable horse allowed himself to be saddled by some brave and greedy soul looking for adventures, especially when the first rays of dawn appeared on the horizon, he found himself on the ground, and Belludo ran next to his pack of dogs.

A local resident said that in this story, the ghost is only a horse that was once the sultan's favorite horse, but the dogs that run after it are quite real dogs of those who live on the streets of the old city.