# Urganda

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**Urganda** is a mythological [witch](/source/Witch), the Portuguese equivalent of [Circe](/source/Circe), the witch whom Odysseus (according to the *[Odyssey](/source/Odyssey)*) encountered on his journey home from Troy.[1] She is an [enchantress](/source/Enchantress_(supernatural)) in the romances belonging to the [Amadis](/source/Amad%C3%ADs_de_Gaula) and Palmerin series in the Spanish school of romance.[2]

Urganda is one of the [Fates](/source/Moirai) who appear in [Matteo Maria Boiardo](/source/Matteo_Maria_Boiardo)'s epic poem *[Orlando in Love](/source/Orlando_Innamorato)* (1495). In the poem she is the protector of Amadigi, along with fellow fate [Oriana](/source/Oriana).[3]

The Spanish poet [Miguel Cervantes](/source/Miguel_de_Cervantes) mentions her in the preliminary Poems of *[Don Quixote](/source/Don_Quixote)* (1605).[4] The part she plays in the poem is more like that of [Merlin](/source/Merlin). She derives her title from the faculty which, like Merlin, she possessed: that of changing her form and appearance at will.[5]

A hermitage [folly](/source/Folly) designed in 1750 by [Thomas Wright](/source/Thomas_Wright_(astronomer)) in the grounds of [Badminton House](/source/Badminton_House), in [Gloucestershire](/source/Gloucestershire), [England](/source/England), and known as the Root House is dedicated to Urganda.[1][6]

## References

1. *The Book of Trespass*. Nick Hayes. Bloomsbury Circus (20 Aug 2020). ISBN 1526604698 Chapter *Fox*

1. Cobham Brewer, E. (1894). ["The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable."](http://www46.homepage.villanova.edu/michael.foight/brewersdictphrasefable.pdf). p. 2838.

1. Bane, Theresa (2013). *Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology*. McFarland. p. 334. ISBN 1476612420.

1. ["#34 Urganda la Desconocida | MusiChess"](https://musichess.com/project/36-urganda-la-desconocida/). Retrieved 2020-12-31.

1. Cervantes, Miguel de, ["Commendatory Verses"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Don_Quixote_(Cervantes/Ormsby)/Volume_1/Commendatory_Verses#cite_note-2), *The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha 1*, retrieved 2024-01-07

1. ["HERMIT'S CELL THE ROOT HOUSE, Badminton - 1320851 | Historic England"](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1320851). *historicengland.org.uk*. Retrieved 2020-12-31.

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