As legend has it, there used to live a small being inside a black bottle that was tightly closed. This being was very small, of human shape, with a disproportionately large bald head and tiny arms and legs. The bottle remained safely stored inside the house and was only opened when its owners needed to do some kind of extraordinary task that required a skill considered impossible for humans. It is believed that the stone walls of Ibiza’s mountain terraces were made by such a being, as well as the construction of a house in Sant Antoni. The being that lived in the bottle was called Fameliar and would finish the given task in a single night or could harvest a whole farm in just one day. Once, a woman ordered him to wash black wool until it was white, an impossible task in order to try to saciate him. It is said that he was very nervous and would quickly present himself and ask for work or something to eat. His favourite food was bread and cheese, which would be left out for him at the door of the water cistern or in a hole in the wall. 

To get him back into the bottle, you only needed to attract him with a blessed olive branch and a very strange prayer that no-one remembers any more. 

To get your own Fameliar, you had to go just before midnight under the old Santa Eulària bridge. There, and only during that one night, a flower was born that you had to pick and introduce in a black bottle.

As proof of the existence of the Fameliar, there is the fact that the Spanish Inquisition acted against some people, arguing that they held Fameliars at home, as was the case with Bartolomeu Fluixà, a neighbour of Sant Lorenç in the 18th century.