A Santa Compaña. Know the legend, Galicia

There is a belief in the souls and that they manifest and have their life after death.
In the darkness appears a procession of souls in pain, is always headed by a live, the first they have seen that night, if you want to get rid of them and leave so gloomy procession must deliver the attributes to another mortal, or hang them to the neck of a dog and lock himself in an ark full of corn.
The Holy Company is formed by souls that go in two rows, wrapped in shrouds, with cold hands and bare feet.
Each ghost carries a light, but it is invisible, only a smell of wax and a light wind are the signs that the legion of specters is passing.
In front is a larger spectrum, the Estadea. Sometimes they carry a coffin in which a relative walks. This does not take long to die.
It may happen that those who find their way late at night are forced to follow the procession carrying a cross and a cauldron.
The companion can transmit his "job" if he meets another person on one of the trips of the deceased.
He gives him the cross and the cauldron and he is free while the person to whom he has given them is the one who goes to accompany the ghosts.