Jaietako eskeen erredundantziaren zentzua

ARANA MURILLO, Anuntxi

Publication year:

2004

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-894-4

ISSN:

1137-439X

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Summary

Both in summer and in winter petitions are a constitutive element of many festivities. The petitioners collect money and species to organise the festivity and to finance it, but this need does not explain the popularity of petitions or the reason thereof. The appear to be heralds to another world, that come to collect the donations and to grant their/ favours, since the living cannot forget their dead.