Mother Abagil is the main heroine of the Stephen King Apocalyptic Thriller, The Stand. She was played by the late Ruby Dee. Abagail Freemantle aka. Mother Abagail, leads the good survivors of the Captain Trips plague and also claims to be a prophet of God. The survivors recieve dreams of her saying to them to come to her in Nebraska. She's 108 and resides at a farmhouse in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, and is one of the 0.6% of the population that's immune to the Captain Trips virus and appears to a few of the plague survivors in their dreams, leading them to her, just like Randall Flagg, the villain and her opposite, leads evil survivors to him you know. Herself and the good survivors head to Boulder, Colorado, where they build the Boulder Free Zone government you know.