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Dearg Due

E boetse e bitswa: Dearg-due, Dearg Dur, Deargh Du
Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohileng

The Dearg Due is presented in modern retellings as an Irish female revenant who drinks blood. The story has her die after a forced marriage and climb from her grave to kill the men responsible. Unlike most entries here it has no clear documentary trail in older Irish folklore collections, and it should be treated as a recent or literary legend. It is included because it is now one of the most widely repeated Irish undead stories.1

Di lwantshe
Tshimoloho
Irish (modern legend)
Ireland
Se e bakang
Tse ding
A woman who died of misery in a forced marriage rises to take revenge.
Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng
A young woman of Waterford married off by her father to a cruel chieftain, who starved herself to death in confinement.
Bohlale
Bohlale
dinoutu tsa patlisiso

Seo mehlodi e se buang

1

The name is usually glossed as 'red blood-sucker', though only dearg ('red') is transparent Irish1

2

She kills her father in his sleep, then her husband, whose blood she drinks1

3

Afterwards she lures young men aside and bites their throats1

4

Her grave is said to lie at Strongbow's Tree in Waterford1

5

Often paired with Abhartach as Ireland's other 'vampire'1

Mehlodi

  1. The Dearg Due - The Irish Road Trip

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AbhartachIrish, 1870

Tse ding tse kang ena

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