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Abhartach

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: Avartagh, neamh-mairbh
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloIvuswe ekufeniUbugqwirha1500 ukuya ku-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

Yiphose edabini
Yabhalwa okokuqala
1870
First recorded by Patrick Weston Joyce in The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (1870)
Imvelaphi
Irish
IUnited Kingdom, IIreland
Oko kuyibangelayo
Ubugqwirha
He was a magician in life, and his own powers bring him back from the grave.
Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
A dwarf tyrant and sorcerer killed by a neighbouring chieftain and buried standing upright.
Ubukrelekrele
Ikrelekrele
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • burial head downwards
  • a sword of yew wood (modern versions)
  • thorns around the grave and a great stone on top (modern versions)

Yavela nini okokuqala?

Ihlabathi lamanduloAmaxesha Aphakathi1500 ukuya ku-18991900 ukuya ku-19671968 ukuya ku-19992000 ukuya ku-20092010 ukuza kuthi ga namhlanje1870

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

amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

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

Imithombo

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

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