The different origin of Ons neighbours, the insularity they were submitted to, the isolation and the lack of spiritual and health services, formed a peculiar culture with a great identity. So usual stories of the rural Galician countryside were settled and exaggerated by these conditions. That´s how pagan and religious beliefs were put together. The most usual one was the “evil eye” but there were a lot of remedies for it. Apart from that, there was the presence of “Santa Compaña”, a connection between the living and the dead, announcing that another neighbour is going to die It´s a dead people procession with lights and bells and they illuminate everything. They even have a fixed route, entering the north side of the island (from the continent) and disappearing in the cemetery area.
The lack of health service made the development of popular ways of curing usual, the use of medicinal plants, sometimes mixed with spells and rites and other times in potions. This way respiratory and digestive pains were cured or the pains of the animals, like “el mal de aire”, which was the equivalent of evils eye but for the animals.
Even the dornas (traditional ships) were broken down. At night, there was a ritual regarding to them. They were put upside down and in front of a foreign witch (meiga), when that ship hadn´t fished enough.
