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Júlia Ramalho

"Jellyfish, I don't get rid of them!"

 

Júlia Ramalho has more than 60 years in the body. Júlia Ramalho's grandmother, at a certain point, when she had a lot of work doing handicrafts, "took her little tribe and put them to work". The most frank, but with more skill, Júlia, was the one who best avenged. Her first salary was 90 escudos a week - "a luxury!" - and the first piece he sold, at the age of ten, was a doll, for five crowns , which he has already lost track of. Júlia Ramalho really likes her honey-jellyfish - "sometimes it even looks like caramel" - which, sometimes, using the smoke technique, turns green. "So you can play with the tones". He does not like to do devils and believes that there are pieces that are really unlucky. He recalls the story of a craft fair when Catalans offered him a devil. Julia thought she had a strange look and gave it to a friend. From then on, everything went wrong for his friend, who, not wanting to throw the piece away, offered it to another friend, ignoring Júlia's advice to get rid of that poor devil and throw him in the Douro River. One day the artisan received a call from a lady from Lisbon who, with her life in "swamps", asked him what to do with the evil fated demon. Finally, it was destroyed.

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