One of the most peculiar rituals of rural Galicia is the one that ends at the sanctuary of Santo André de Teixido, located in the municipality of Cedeira, in the province of A Coruña. “To San Andrés de Teixido goes the dead who did not go alive,” says a well-known saying. "He who does not go in life goes when he is dead," recalls David Roas (Barcelona, 1965), professor of literary theory at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and author of a dozen books of fantastic stories – a genre to which he has also dedicated numerous studies – the latest of which is Territorios" (Páginas de Espuma, 2026).