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Abhartach

Wɔfrɛ no bio: Avartagh, neamh-mairbh
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewAbayisɛm1500 kɔsi 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

Fa ko
Wɔdii kan kyerɛw
1870
First recorded by Patrick Weston Joyce in The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (1870)
Mfiase
Irish
United Kingdom, Ireland
Deɛ ɛde ba
Abayisɛm
He was a magician in life, and his own powers bring him back from the grave.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
A dwarf tyrant and sorcerer killed by a neighbouring chieftain and buried standing upright.
Nyansa
Nyansafoɔ
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • burial head downwards
  • a sword of yew wood (modern versions)
  • thorns around the grave and a great stone on top (modern versions)

Ɛberɛ bɛn na ɛdii kan puee?

Tete wiaseMfinimfini Mmerɛ1500 kɔsi 18991900 kɔsi 19671968 kɔsi 19992000 kɔsi 20092010 kɔsi ɛnnɛ1870

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

nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

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

Fibea

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

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Berɛ koro: 1500 kɔsi 1899

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