Rooster of Barcelos

The story is associated with the 17th-century calvary that is part of the collection of the Archaeological Museum located in Paço dos Condes, a gothic-style palace in Barcelos, a city in the Braga District of northwest Portugal.

The Galician swore that he was merely passing through Barcelos on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela to fulfill a promise.

Understanding his error, the judge ran to the gallows, to discover that the man had been saved from death thanks to a poorly made knot.

Some years later, he returned to Barcelos to sculpt the Calvary (or Crucifix) to the Lord of the Rooster (Portuguese: "Cruzeiro do Senhor do Galo") in praise to the Virgin Mary and to Saint James.

However, variations to the story include: In the 1990s U.S. sitcom Seinfeld, Elaine's first apartment, which she shares with a roommate who briefly dates Kramer, is shown furnished in kitschy style, cluttered with bric-a-brac—including a rooster of Barcelos.