Ramón Mariño Ferro teaches anthropology at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and has published widely on the popular culture of Galicia, with such successful works as: Contos de homes e mulleres (Stories about Men and Women), Serpes e dragóns (Serpents and Dragons), O demo e o trasno (Demons and Gnomes), Contos marabillosos (Miraculous Stories), Lobos, lobas e lobishombres (Wolves, She-wolves and Werewolves) and Aparicións da Santa Compaña (Processions of the Holy Company), all published by Edicions do Cumio. He has also published Leyendas, mitos y creencias de Galicia (Galician Legends, Myths and Beliefs, Eliago Ediciones) which is in its second edition.