#abhartach

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Jack O'Connell as Remmick in SINNERS (2025)

Dir. Ryan Coogler

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Uploading my favorite edit I’ve done of Remmick so far 💕 I was so happy with the way it came out 😭

{My Remmick Edits 3/??}

TT: LittleMissHargrove.

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Mythology Musing – Celtic Roots & The Irish Dracula

Bram Stoker was Irish, and frankly, it shows. Long before Dracula, pre-Christian Celtic Ireland gave us the unnerving legend of the Abhartach (Game, n.d.).

Folklore from the fifth and sixth centuries describes the Abhartach as a tyrannical dwarf king and dark sorcerer who repeatedly rose from his grave at night to feast on the blood of his subjects (Game, n.d.). The only way to stop him? Slain with a wooden sword, buried upside down, and trapped beneath a massive stone. Vampirism in these early stories was closely linked to visceral, prehistoric fears surrounding blood as the ultimate source of human vitality (Buzea, n.d.). The veil between life and death has always been terrifyingly thin, especially around Samhain.

There is a deeply auditory element to Celtic horror that gets overlooked. The ancient Celts were oral storytellers, meaning these monsters lived in the breath and the voice. When we pluck the strings of a Celtic lap harp or weave sweeping ambient layers into our tracks, we are trying to capture that exact, ancient chill—the feeling of cold wind tickling a burial mound.

The Abhartach (Wikipedia)

Samhain and the Celtic Underworld (Wikipedia)

Game, P. B. (n.d.). The History of Vampire Folklore.

Buzea, T. (n.d.). How a Book Changed a Nation.

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Love the fact that Remmick is so fucking old. Based on the number of Irish cultural historians, you know that team knew about Irish vamps predating Dracula.

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Check out my take on the Dracula design for BD&SB! He only appears in flash-backs or static images, but he is integral to the story's lore. I mean, Bruno had to get those vampiric abilities somewhere, right?

I spent a lot of time thinking about how I'd like to make him look, and how I'd differentiate him from every other Dracula. Even though this is my first pass, I'm really pleased with it. I'm super inspired by the designs in Samurai Jack and Genndy Tartakovsky's other work, as well as Stoker's original description and the Coppola Dracula film as well. Gary Oldman + fantastic costuming = ✨️iconic✨️

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Watched the vampire movie Boys from County Hell, an Irish horror-comedy film that uses the local vampire legend of the Abhartach.

6/10 the humor didn't always land for me but not a bad vampire film.

I very much liked how the movie went 'you can't kill things that are dead' and stuck with that the entire film. Just straight-up vampires cannot die because *they are already dead* if you want to stop them you have to do the literal traditional tactics of securing them into a grave and making sure they can't get out.

The design of the original vampire, the Abhartach, was neat tho I do agree with the reviewers I watched stating that given the type of soil he was buried in the whole bog body thing doesn't make sense. Also liked that these were feral corpse vampires rather than sophisticated fancy fuckers but also they they weren't unintelligent either.

Also really like the thing they did with the Abhartach in that it doesn't need to even touch its victims. All it has to do is be close, not even inside yer house close, to make your blood leave your body and follow it back to its lair. Very nice, very magical.

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If anyone is interested in learning about Irish vampire lore.