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Abhartach

También llamado: Avartagh, neamh-mairbh
Folclore y mitosNo muertoBrujeríaDe 1500 a 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

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Primer registro
1870
First recorded by Patrick Weston Joyce in The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (1870)
Origen
Irish
Reino Unido, Irlanda
Qué lo causa
Brujería
He was a magician in life, and his own powers bring him back from the grave.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
A dwarf tyrant and sorcerer killed by a neighbouring chieftain and buried standing upright.
Inteligencia
Listo
Puntos débiles
  • 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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Mundo antiguo
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De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a hoy
1870

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

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Qué dicen las fuentes

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

Fuentes

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

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