Tartalo (Tartaro, Torto, Alarabi), the one-eyed man-eating cave-giant of Basque mythology — the Basque cyclops — undone by his own crying ring after the hero blinds and outwits him. Closely paralleling the Polyphemus episode of the Odyssey (and the Irish Balor), as Webster noted. Documented by Webster and Barandiarán (secondary).
Domains
mountain caves and herding
man eating monstrosity
Powers
See with a single eye in the middle of the forehead and overpower and eat his captives
Epithets
Tartaro
Torto
Sources
W. Webster, Basque Legends (London, 1879), Tartaro / 'The Tartaro' tales
J. M. Barandiarán, Diccionario ilustrado de mitología vasca, s.v. Tartalo / Tartaro / Torto