Corpo Seco

Charcoal drawing.

The Corpo Seco (which is Portuguese for "dry body") is a revenant-like figure from Brazilian folklore. The legend, better known in rural areas, says that in life he was a man so evil (one version says that he used to hit his own mother, another one says he was a rich owner of slaves) that was rejected by Earth and Hell when he died, becoming then an undead wanderer, often seen around cemeteries.

I drew him with a big head and unproportional dimensions to make him look more hideous.

Éder N. Santos, 2016.