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Mula-sem-cabeça

This is my entry for the mini-contest "Creature of the Week" at
Theme: Headless

I decided to do something related with my country's culture, so I took the mith of the Headless Mule. That was my favourite mith when I was a child. ^^

Material used: pen (0,4), pencil (0,7) and color pencil. Subsequently, some retouching in photoshop

Thanks to my love Wilson, who helped my a lot.

A bit of culture:

The Headless Mule (Portuguese = Mula-sem-cabeça) is a character in Brazilian folklore. In most tales, it is the ghost of a woman that has been cursed by God for her sins (often said to be as concubinate or fornication with a priest) and condemned to turn into a fire-spewing headless mule, galloping through the countryside from Thursday's sundown to Friday's sunrise. The myth has several variations concerning the sin that turned the cursed woman into the monster: necrophagy, infanticide, sacrilege against the church, fornication, etc.

Edit: I won the contest!!! I'm so proud! [link]

Description
Mula-sem-cabeça

This is my entry for the mini-contest "Creature of the Week" at
Theme: Headless

I decided to do something related with my country's culture, so I took the mith of the Headless Mule. That was my favourite mith when I was a child. ^^

Material used: pen (0,4), pencil (0,7) and color pencil. Subsequently, some retouching in photoshop

Thanks to my love Wilson, who helped my a lot.

A bit of culture:

The Headless Mule (Portuguese = Mula-sem-cabeça) is a character in Brazilian folklore. In most tales, it is the ghost of a woman that has been cursed by God for her sins (often said to be as concubinate or fornication with a priest) and condemned to turn into a fire-spewing headless mule, galloping through the countryside from Thursday's sundown to Friday's sunrise. The myth has several variations concerning the sin that turned the cursed woman into the monster: necrophagy, infanticide, sacrilege against the church, fornication, etc.

Edit: I won the contest!!! I'm so proud! [link]