Abhartach

Λέγεται και: Avartagh, neamh-mairbh

Λαογραφία και μύθοιΑπέθαντοςΜαγεία1500–1899

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.1 2

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Πρώτη καταγραφή

1870

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

Προέλευση

Irish

Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο, Ιρλανδία

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Μαγεία

He was a magician in life, and his own powers bring him back from the grave.

Πώς γίνεσαι ένα

A dwarf tyrant and sorcerer killed by a neighbouring chieftain and buried standing upright.

Ευφυΐα

Έξυπνος

Αδύναμα σημεία

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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Αρχαίος κόσμος

Μεσαίωνας

1500–1899

1900–1967

1968–1999

2000–2009

2010 μέχρι σήμερα

1870

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

σημειώσεις πεδίου

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The name is an Irish word for 'dwarf'1 2

Killed and buried upright, he came back twice before a druid advised burying him upside down1 2

Some tellings credit the killing to Fionn mac Cumhaill; modern ones name a chieftain Cathain1 2

Modern retellings call him one of the neamh-mairbh, the walking dead, and add blood-drinking1 2

His grave is identified with the Slaghtaverty Dolmen in County Londonderry1 2

Bob Curran argued in 2000 that the legend may have influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula1 2

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