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Abhartach

Gape e bidiwa: Avartagh, neamh-mairbh
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengBoloi1500 go ya go 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

Di lwantshe
E kwadilwe la ntlha
1870
First recorded by Patrick Weston Joyce in The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (1870)
Tshimologo
Irish
Bogosi jo bo Kopaneng, Aerelane
Se se e bakang
Boloi
He was a magician in life, and his own powers bring him back from the grave.
O fetoga yone jang
A dwarf tyrant and sorcerer killed by a neighbouring chieftain and buried standing upright.
Botlhale
E botlhale
Bokoa
  • burial head downwards
  • a sword of yew wood (modern versions)
  • thorns around the grave and a great stone on top (modern versions)

E tlhagile la ntlha leng?

Lefatshe la bogologoloMotlha wa Bogare1500 go ya go 18991900 go ya go 19671968 go ya go 19992000 go ya go 20092010 go fitlha gompieno1870

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

dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

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

Metswedi

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

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Motlha o o tshwanang: 1500 go ya go 1899

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