Cacicia, very rare, is typical of Palermo with a stock also in Agrigento, it could derive from a dialectal modification of the Arabic name Hashim, but it is also possible, if not even more probable, a derivation from a nickname linked to the Arabic word hashish or hashasha (grass, weed), the Islamic world at various times forbade the use of hashish for its narcotic effects, but the same was also used to reach religious ecstasy by the Persian Sufis and the Arab Dervishes, we remember Hasan Ibn-Al Sabbah who lived between the end of the 1000s and the beginning of the 1100s who founded the hashes-hin sect or hashish-eaters, from this term derives the today's killer word.
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