{"id":16574,"date":"2023-08-11T16:46:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T14:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/2023\/08\/11\/the-femina-agabbadora-between-legend-and-reality-in-gallura\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T16:46:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T14:46:11","slug":"the-femina-agabbadora-between-legend-and-reality-in-gallura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/en\/2023\/08\/11\/the-femina-agabbadora-between-legend-and-reality-in-gallura\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Femina Agabbad\u00f2ra\u2019 \u2013 Between Legend and Reality in Gallura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The term \u2018femina agabbad\u00f2ra\u2019 derives from the Sardinian \u2018s\u2019acabbu\u2019 (\u2018the end\u2019) or from the Spanish \u2018acabar\u2019 (\u2018to end\u2019). In Sardinian, it denotes a woman who took it upon herself to bring death to people of any age whose conditions were so critical that they or their family asked for it. The existence of such a figure is not historically proven, and there is no evidence of such a practice, which allegedly occurred in some Sardinian regions like Marghine, Planargia, and Gallura. No compensation was required from the family members, as paying for helping people die was against religious and superstitious beliefs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16553 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/541a134e9ee52b852e82ae40efa089f4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/541a134e9ee52b852e82ae40efa089f4.jpeg 735w, https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/541a134e9ee52b852e82ae40efa089f4-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/541a134e9ee52b852e82ae40efa089f4-700x467.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to legend, the femina agabbad\u00f2ra used different killing methods depending on the place: she entered the dying person\u2019s room wearing black clothes and with her face hidden and suffocated them with a pillow, used an olive wood club (\u2018su matzolu\u2019) to hit them with a single sharp blow on their forehead or the back of their head, or chocked them by putting their neck between her legs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16563 \" src=\"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"401\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Some anthropologists believe that the femina agabbad\u00f2ra never existed. There is no proof of the existence of the femina agabbad\u00f2ra as such, but there is evidence of women who brought comfort to families, accompanying dying people until their very last moment. They eased agony and offered support, which is why they were respected by the whole community, but they did not kill according to some researchers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16558 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dsc09403.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dsc09403.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dsc09403-300x168.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dsc09403-768x431.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dsc09403-700x393.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/dsc09403-539x303.jpeg 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16568 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/copertina-accabadora.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/copertina-accabadora.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/copertina-accabadora-300x150.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term \u2018femina agabbad\u00f2ra\u2019 derives from the Sardinian \u2018s\u2019acabbu\u2019 (\u2018the end\u2019) or from the Spanish \u2018acabar\u2019 (\u2018to end\u2019). In Sardinian, it denotes a woman who took it upon herself to bring death to people of any age whose conditions were so critical that they or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[205],"class_list":["post-16574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-and-culture","tag-accabadora-agabbadora-gallura-culture-tradition-legend-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovergallura.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}