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Re:Spain: The Tiny Abandoned Villages for Sale on Saturday November 23, 2019 @06:25AM (#21613593)
It does mean witch in galician (probably in portuguese as well). Kind of a soft witch, and not an evil one. Galicia had, until recently, quite colorful magical traditions.

Your etymology seems plausible.