For most of the islanders, going to sea emigrating is their destiny. Love and family are being cut in two. Once a man comes of age he sings up and goes to the sea in search of luck and wealth , longing to discover the world, but he lives with the nostalgia of return. The women are left behind with their loneliness, deprived of love, feeling the absence , the social downgrading and the nightmare of their loved-one possibly being swallowed by the black seas .These feelings being experienced are probably the most powerful element that keeps feeding ,in a most tragical manner, the folk inspiration for the emigration songs. These songs are mainly created by the women but also from the rest of the people left behind sharing the feelings and identifying themselves with the women's point of vie highlighting the image of solitude and the injustice suffered by the victims of emigration.
   From the emigrant's point of view , on behalf of whom the ones left behind are singing , when is so happens that he unintentionally remains in the foreign land for long , despite the existing assurances of his return , the event is being attributed, in a mythical way, to the intervention of a foreign woman , the daughter of witch.