dearg.due
Noun (In Irish legend) Ancient Irish legend of a female vampire whom lures men in through her beauty
The legend of The Dearg-Due is a long one, the old Irish legend begins with a beautiful Irish maiden. She was renowned for her beauty throughout the land and falls in love with a man whom is of peasant status and then later they made a pact to love each other until both their deaths.
The maidens father did not approve of the peasant and wished for his daughter to marry a rich man of higher class and so the the maidens father plans a wedding between to a rich man to his daughters dismay. The wedding went ahead and the young bride observed her father cursing him and making a promise of vengeance.
The maidens new husband was a horrible man whom objectified her, he locked her away so he was the only one who could look upon her beauty and keep her to himself. The maiden was locked away in the dark away from everything she loved and deprived of food and drink.
Her death is rumoured to have occurred in two ways either she poisoned herself or died of a broken heart.
Noone merely blinked at the young maidens death all except for her one true love, the peasant boy. He often visited her grave speaking of desire to see her again. His desire turned to reality as a year later on the exact date she died she rose and with vengeance she found her father and placed her lips gently over his, she sucked every breath of life from him.
After sucking the life out of her father the maiden visited her husband and found him in a compromising position with a young women she became furious and not only drew all his breath but also his blood.
The blood in her deceased body made her feel alive again and she yearned for more.
She began luring men in with promise of love but would instead suck their blood and her hunger for blood consumed her.
Her obsession with blood caused her to forget her one love and she never saw him again. With only one night a year prey on men and their blood the maiden was ravenous and so she would return to her grave a bloody state.