Miguel Perez Fernandez
Ritos Y Creencias Gallegas
Student winner
"La Santa Compaña" is made up by a group of deceased, followed by a living condemned to go out all nights to the roads, heading the funeral pilgrimage carrying a cross, a bucket of blessed water or an oil lamp. Has to find another living whom to pass the condemn and that way be free. If not done in a certain time, will slowly painlessly die. If you find her don't talk to her, don't move and especially close your eyes to not see them, and that way you will avoid joining the procession of (sadness and grief). In any village of GALICIA there is at least one testimony of these appearances.
Bovine smooth brown. Impression on skin through engraving linoleum, graphic in black colour. Headbands handmade in silk thread – two colours. Guard finished in the same skin sandpaper and the other guard in buckskin.
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