O porco e o seu espírito (S)

“Driven by the need of understanding and explaining the world around them, humanity has symbolically attributed to animals functions that originally were exclusively human. It is believed that a pig chosen to be slaughtered can sense and anticipate its approaching death, and on the eve of its killing, it spends the whole night banging its head against the door of the pigsty. This belief lies behind a traditional Galician legend according to which the pig, during the night prior to its slaughtering, wakes up from its sleep up to seven times to devour its owner.” (Adrián Canoura)