There were essential things regarding to the diverse origin of the neighbours of Ons (from the early 20th century) from the Barbanza to O Morrazo the insularity to which they were subjected and some isolation because the closest point between the island and the mainland is Punta Faxilda to 3.5 km, without forgetting the storms which caused indefinite isolation. Some other subjects were the lack of spiritual and medical services not always guaranteed (absent or irregular and discontinuous in time). All this built its unique culture leading to mingle pagan and Christian beliefs.
The insularity magnified beliefs that were on the continent as well, some of them belonging to the rural Galicia, were here magnified by the conditions to which we referred before, for instance the legendary Santa Compaña, the link between the world of the living and the dead, which warns about the arrival of the death of a neighbour or the evil eye for which there were numerous remedies and other superstitions and numerous legends and myths associated with different places like the Buraco do Inferno (the hole of the hell) or the Moors Cave, which caused anxiety among the inhabitants, who would expand these legends, myths and beliefs.
