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Abhartach

Detto anche: Avartagh, neamh-mairbh
Folklore e mitiNon mortoStregoneriaDal 1500 al 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

Combatterlo
Prima attestazione
1870
First recorded by Patrick Weston Joyce in The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (1870)
Origine
Irish
Regno Unito, Irlanda
Cosa lo causa
Stregoneria
He was a magician in life, and his own powers bring him back from the grave.
Come lo si diventa
A dwarf tyrant and sorcerer killed by a neighbouring chieftain and buried standing upright.
Intelligenza
Furbo
Punti deboli
  • burial head downwards
  • a sword of yew wood (modern versions)
  • thorns around the grave and a great stone on top (modern versions)

Quando è comparso per la prima volta?

Mondo anticoMedioevoDal 1500 al 1899Dal 1900 al 1967Dal 1968 al 1999Dal 2000 al 2009Dal 2010 a oggi1870

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

appunti sul campo

Cosa dicono le fonti

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

Fonti

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

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