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Abhartach

Tamén chamado: Avartagh, neamh-mairbh
Folclore e mitoMorto viventeBruxaríaDe 1500 a 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

Á batalla!
Primeiro rexistro
1870
First recorded by Patrick Weston Joyce in The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (1870)
Orixe
Irish
Reino Unido, Irlanda
Que o causa
Bruxaría
He was a magician in life, and his own powers bring him back from the grave.
Como te convertes nun
A dwarf tyrant and sorcerer killed by a neighbouring chieftain and buried standing upright.
Intelixencia
Listo
Puntos débiles
  • burial head downwards
  • a sword of yew wood (modern versions)
  • thorns around the grave and a great stone on top (modern versions)

Cando apareceu por primeira vez?

Mundo antigoIdade MediaDe 1500 a 1899De 1900 a 1967De 1968 a 1999De 2000 a 2009De 2010 ata hoxe1870

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

notas de campo

O que din as fontes

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

Fontes

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

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