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Abhartach

També anomenat: Avartagh, neamh-mairbh

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

⚔️ Lluita-hi
Primer registre
1870
First recorded by Patrick Weston Joyce in The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (1870)
Origen
Irish
Regne Unit, Irlanda
Què el causa
Bruixeria
He was a magician in life, and his own powers bring him back from the grave.
Com et converteixes en un
A dwarf tyrant and sorcerer killed by a neighbouring chieftain and buried standing upright.
Intel·ligència
Intel·ligent
Punts febles
  • burial head downwards
  • a sword of yew wood (modern versions)
  • thorns around the grave and a great stone on top (modern versions)

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Món antic
Edat mitjana
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a avui
1870

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

notes de camp

Què diuen les fonts

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

Fonts

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

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Mateixa època: De 1500 a 1899