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Abhartach

Ook bekend as: Avartagh, neamh-mairbh
Volksverhale en mitesOndoodTowery1500 tot 1899

Abhartach is a dwarf sorcerer-king of Ulster legend who would not stay buried. In the version Joyce printed in 1870 he is killed and interred upright three times, and only burial head-down ends his returns. The blood-drinking and the term 'walking dead' belong to later tellings, especially Bob Curran's. The story is regularly proposed as an Irish source for Dracula, though the claim remains speculative.12

Veg daarteen
Eerste opgeteken
1870
First recorded by Patrick Weston Joyce in The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (1870)
Oorsprong
Irish
Verenigde Koninkryk, Ierland
Wat dit veroorsaak
Towery
He was a magician in life, and his own powers bring him back from the grave.
Hoe jy een word
A dwarf tyrant and sorcerer killed by a neighbouring chieftain and buried standing upright.
Intelligensie
Slim
Swak plekke
  • burial head downwards
  • a sword of yew wood (modern versions)
  • thorns around the grave and a great stone on top (modern versions)

Wanneer het dit eerste verskyn?

Antieke wêreldMiddeleeue1500 tot 18991900 tot 19671968 tot 19992000 tot 20092010 tot vandag1870

First recorded by Patrick Weston Joyce in The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (1870)

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Wat die bronne sê

1

The name is an Irish word for 'dwarf'12

2

Killed and buried upright, he came back twice before a druid advised burying him upside down12

3

Some tellings credit the killing to Fionn mac Cumhaill; modern ones name a chieftain Cathain12

4

Modern retellings call him one of the neamh-mairbh, the walking dead, and add blood-drinking12

5

His grave is identified with the Slaghtaverty Dolmen in County Londonderry12

6

Bob Curran argued in 2000 that the legend may have influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula12

Bronne

  1. Abhartach - Wikipedia
  2. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia

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