Dearg Due
The Dearg Due is presented in modern retellings as an Irish female revenant who drinks blood. The story has her die after a forced marriage and climb from her grave to kill the men responsible. Unlike most entries here it has no clear documentary trail in older Irish folklore collections, and it should be treated as a recent or literary legend. It is included because it is now one of the most widely repeated Irish undead stories.1
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The name is usually glossed as 'red blood-sucker', though only dearg ('red') is transparent Irish1
She kills her father in his sleep, then her husband, whose blood she drinks1
Afterwards she lures young men aside and bites their throats1
Her grave is said to lie at Strongbow's Tree in Waterford1
Often paired with Abhartach as Ireland's other 'vampire'1
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