A person born on it would not succeed in life.[1] His plans and possessions would be lost, blown away, as it were, by the wind, and dissipated into thin air.
[Footnote 1: Sahagun.

_Historia_, Lib.

iv, cap.

viii.] Through the association of his person with the prying winds he came, curiously enough, to be the patron saint of a certain class of thieves, who stupefied their victims before robbing them.

They applied to him to exercise his maleficent power on those whom they planned to deprive of their goods.