Urban Legends: La Santa Compana

Santa Compana is one of the most famous and chilling urban legends of all Spain , surely you will not want to run into this procession of spirits that announces the inevitable death of one of the neighbors.

The origin of the Santa Compana

The Santa Compana is a popular legend belonging to the Galician mythology , it ensures that a procession of the dead or souls in pain wander around different parts of the province visiting the houses where there will be a death soon.

According to the legend, these souls in sorrow are dressed in white or black, with bare feet and each spirit carries a candle that leaves the smell of wax impregnated in the environment.In front of this chilling procession is a living person , who the next day generally He does not remember what happened, behind the person go all the ghosts who in many occasions are not visible but you can feel their presence by the cold atmosphere and the smell of the candle wax.

It is said that the person who heads this procession can be male or female and performs this task because he has been punished for his sins, that is why every night he must head this pilgrimage and the next morning he finds himself completely weakened and disoriented until he finally falls ill and dies.The only way to avoid that fate is for another unsuspecting person to see the procession and the wandering souls, then the living will pass the cross he bears and it will be that new person who heads the funeral march.

The legend

There is an urban legend that tells the story of a child who encountered this strange procession.Alvaro returns home to visit his sick father who struggled for weeks with a ter rible disease.One night Alvaro decided to go for a walk and clear his mind no matter that it was after 2 in the morning, that was when I heard a strange singer , quickly hid in some bushes and watched petrified As a procession led by a thin and emaciated man carrying a heavy cross, he went to his father's house.

Urban Legends: La Santa Compana

Behind the man were souls in pain who carried candles, the smell of burnt wax permeated the entire environment.cautious, Alvaro followed the procession , who stopped in front of his parents' house, then saw his father go out and take a candle, began to walk again and a few meters later vanished like the fog.The man who led the march fell unconscious on the floor for a few minutes, then got up disoriented Do and went back to the town.

Alvaro was in shock, he could not believe what he had seen, when suddenly a scream took him out of his own thoughts, it was his sister, who was crying disconsolate , his father was finally dead and the Santa Compana had gone to look for his soul.

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