This minor figure in Irish mythology—one of the FOMORIANS,an ancient and monstrous race— appears in texts devoted to the band of heroes called the FIANNA and he was also known as the Irish Vampire. Ambitious to join the warrior elite, Abarta came to them pretending to be a lazy man in search of a job.
FIONN MAC CUMHAILL, leader of the Fianna, inexplicably agreed to take him into service, calling him Gialla Deacair, or “lazy servant.”
Abarta tricked Fianna into mounting his apparently frail old horse and carried them away to the OTHER- WORLD.
There he held them hostage until Fionn, after many magical adventures and battles, located and freed them.
After this crime, Fionn did not offer Abarta membership in his band.
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