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L'Albaluccia - The Four-leaf Clover
The name ALBA LUCCIA comes from the Sardinian Dialect
Alba=Grass - Luccia=Shining wich means in italian
language Four-leaf Clover. In the past a lot of people
use to go in search of the four-leaf clover with the
belief that if they would find it they would be able to
solve their problems especially of economic nature. The
very rare grass, named alba luccia (shining), was
supposed to be hand picked up in the morning of the Holy
Day of Saint Giovanni Battista, before the sunrise; with
the grass a "Charm" would be created and this would be
constantly worn as a necklace. The person who would wear
it, wouldn't have terrifying appearances never again,
wouldn't have any bad experience and wouldn't be afraid
of anything.
The morning of Easter, before the sunrise, the shepherd
would make the goats go out from their fence. He would
observe carefully the behaviour of a young chaste goat,
if this one would get down on its knees, that would mean
that it has found the grass "luccia" and it was grazing
it. The person who would find the grass "luccia", was
supposed to swallow immediately a leaf of it, to hide
another in a hole of the house's wall (in the outside)
and to keep in the same house the two remaining leafs
and take care of them. This would bring a lot of luck to
the person who had found the grass and to the rest of
the family.
Lu Monti di Luchia - Mount of Luchia
The Mount situated right behind our B&B, with a
prominence that reminds the shape of a bear, it is
called "Lu Monti di Luchia". Luchia use to live in Palau,
she was a property owner famous for her greed and bad
behavioiur towards beggars and poor and unfortunate
people. To punish her greed, God transformed all the
produce of her work and all her properties in rocks and
sand, and in the end, because of her hardness of heart,
God decided also to turn Luchia into a granite rock. In
fact still these days, in the Mount of Luchia, exist the
archological rests of an imposing "Nuraghe" (Ancient
Tipycall Sardinian build construction). In the '40s a
group of empty-headed coming from Olbia, with shovels
and pickaxes turned up side down the "Nuraghe" looking
for a hidden treasure.
*Texts
taken from the book by Quintino Mossa "La Rèula". |
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L'Alba Lùccia
Una òlta li
passòni in cìlca di lu trivòddhulu a cattru fròndi èrani
abbéddhu, palchì cunvinti chi aarìani fattu la sò
fultuna. L'Alba rara abbèddhu chi si li daggjìa lu nòmmu
di "Alba Lùccia", si dìa cilcà e accuddhì la mani
matina di Santu Gjuanni primma d'iscì sòli; fatta dapòi
una punga, chista dìa èsse pultata sémpri a lu còddhu:
ca pultàa "la punga! no vidìa "una spiriènza mala" e no
pudìa aé nisciun malu e nisciun timòri.
La mani
matina di Pasca d'abbrili, primma d'iscì sòli, si
bucàani li capri da la mandra. Si dìa figgjulà cu'
attinzioni si "una turìccia chi no aìa fattu fèdu" (una
capra ciòana chi ancòra no aìa fiddhatu), si fùssia
ingjinucchjata; chistu ulìa dì ch'aìa autu l'alba lùccia
e l' éra pascèndi.
Siddhu s'agattàa
un fundu d'alba lùccia, una frònda dìa esse inguddhita,
un' alta cuata in unu stampu di lu muru di la casa (da
la palti di fòra), l'alt'e dui adduccati illa mattèssi
casa. Fèndi cussì sarìa stata la fultuna di ca l'aìa
agattata e di la sò familia
Lu Monti di Luchia
Luchìa
era Palaèsa. Dèu, pal casticà a Luchìa di l'avarizia chi
aìa, furrièsi tutti li so' còsi in pétra, rèna e
pulvariccia e alla fini, fési divintà a iddha mattèssi
di pétra
També in
Monti Canu si po' vidè ancòra oggji lu mònti di Luchìa. Innantu
v'éra un nuracu cu' lu mattèssi nòmmu. Illu coranta,
tanti macchi d'olbiési vinisini cun pali e piccòni a
cilcà un suiddhatu e svultulésini pétra innantu a pétra
innant'a Luchìa fatta a mònti. |
