Celtic (Gaelic) Vampires

Celtic (Gaelic) Nations
The malign and succubus-like Baobhan sith from the Scottish Highlands and the Lhiannan Shee of the Isle of Man, Scotland and Ireland are two fairy spirits with decidedly vampiric tendencies. Further Irish myths, alone or in combination, may have contributed to the storylines of Irish authors Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker:
 * The Dearg-due[dubious – discuss] (literally "Red Blood Sucker" in Gaelic) - a beautiful young woman who commits suicide when forced into a marriage and then rises from her grave to seek revenge by killing her father and husband. The Bruxas of Portugal, which take the form of a bird at night and assail travellers, are other female vampiric spirits hostile to humans.
 * The legend of Droch-fhuil (literally evil-blood), and the Castle of Droch-fhola (Dún Droch-fhola) which guarded the MacGillicuddy Reeks Mountains of County Kerry
 * The legend of Abhartach - an evil tyrant who repeatedly escapes his grave to spread terror (and in some accounts to drink the blood of his subjects, to be one of the neamh-mairbh (un-dead), and to be killed only by with a sword of yew wood and to be buried upside-down)