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Abhartach

Ñu ngi koy wooye itam: Avartagh, neamh-mairbh
Léeb ak cosaanNéew yu dundaatLiggéeyu dëmm1500 ba 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

Xeexal ko
Jëkk a bindu
1870
First recorded by Patrick Weston Joyce in The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (1870)
Cosaan
Irish
Àngalteer, Irlaand
Lan moo ko waral
Liggéeyu dëmm
He was a magician in life, and his own powers bring him back from the grave.
Naka ngay doone benn
A dwarf tyrant and sorcerer killed by a neighbouring chieftain and buried standing upright.
Xel
Am xel
Fi mu néewe doole
  • burial head downwards
  • a sword of yew wood (modern versions)
  • thorns around the grave and a great stone on top (modern versions)

Kañ la jëkk a feeñ?

Àddina su yàggDiggu jamono1500 ba 18991900 ba 19671968 ba 19992000 ba 20092010 ba tey1870

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

notu gëstu

Li sours yi wax

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

Sours yi

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

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