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Abhartach

A tún ń pè é ní: Avartagh, neamh-mairbh
Ìtàn àtẹnudẹ́nu àti àròsọÒkúOṣó1500 sí 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

Bá a jà
Ìgbà àkọ́kọ́ tí a kọ sílẹ̀
1870
First recorded by Patrick Weston Joyce in The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (1870)
Orírun
Irish
United Kingdom, Ireland
Ohun tó fà á
Oṣó
He was a magician in life, and his own powers bring him back from the grave.
Bí o ṣe di ọ̀kan
A dwarf tyrant and sorcerer killed by a neighbouring chieftain and buried standing upright.
Làákàyè
Ọlọ́gbọ́n
Àwọn ibi tó lẹ̀
  • burial head downwards
  • a sword of yew wood (modern versions)
  • thorns around the grave and a great stone on top (modern versions)

Ìgbà wo ló kọ́kọ́ farahàn?

Ayé àtijọ́Sáà Àárín1500 sí 18991900 sí 19671968 sí 19992000 sí 20092010 títí di òní1870

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

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Ohun tí àwọn orísun sọ

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

Àwọn orísun

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

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