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Abhartach

Aussi appelé: Avartagh, neamh-mairbh
Folklore et mythesMort-vivantSorcellerie1500 à 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

⚔️ L'affronter
Première mention
1870
First recorded by Patrick Weston Joyce in The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (1870)
Origine
Irish
Royaume-Uni, Irlande
Ce qui le provoque
Sorcellerie
He was a magician in life, and his own powers bring him back from the grave.
Comment on en devient un
A dwarf tyrant and sorcerer killed by a neighbouring chieftain and buried standing upright.
Intelligence
Malin
Points faibles
  • burial head downwards
  • a sword of yew wood (modern versions)
  • thorns around the grave and a great stone on top (modern versions)

Quand est-il apparu pour la première fois ?

Monde antique
Moyen Âge
1500 à 1899
1900 à 1967
1968 à 1999
2000 à 2009
2010 à aujourd'hui
1870

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

notes de terrain

Ce que disent les sources

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

Sources

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

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