If you ever stay in a Spanish village, know that there are some things you mustn’t do after night falls: Don’t walk alone into the forest. Don’t accept gifts from strangers. And if you see light coming from a church, don’t walk in – certain rituals should never be interrupted.
In rural Spain, the night still belongs to the ánimas, the spirits of the dead who didn’t go straight to Heaven or Hell. Stuck in the liminal realm that Catholics call Purgatory, these souls can sometimes be seen by the living, but an encounter with them may prove fatal.
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