Based on principles of cognitive semantics such as metaphor and metonimy as cognitive processes and sistematicity of idioms, this paper attempts to identify similarities and differences between idioms containing the words "água" and "apã" (that both mean "water") in Romanian and Portuguese. Several types os similarities were identified between the metaphors and metonymies that originated idioms in these two languages. In some cases both source

This paper presents Sebastianism, one of the Portuguese national myths, and the importance of the miracle in the Portuguese identity. The foundational myth, the miracle from Ourique, is the one that claims the divine intervention in the creation of the Portuguese nation. Miracle will continue to be an important part of the Portuguese identity, leading to the appearance of Sebastianism, the myth of the king who would return to save the nation. The