The Dearg Due - The Red Blood Sucker
It's all about the Irish this week
The Dearg Due (or Dearg Dar) is a lesser-known monster from Irish folklore. She is the red blood sucker or female vampire creature from Ireland. Although, her story will sound familiar to you due to a certain famous novel about her kind written by a famous Irishman.
Her catchphrase is: You should have chosen love!
Image from Nine Arrow
Dearg Due’s human tale is a tragic love story filled with the greed and cruelty of the men her life. The legend of her beauty traveled the lands and brought many suitors to her father’s door, but she had already given her heart to a local peasant who was as kind and fair as she was. Unfortunately, her father wanted a good match that would secure and increase the family fortune, so he married her off to a significantly older and infinitely crueler man. This man was a sadistic retch who mentally and physically abused her. He loved to cut her and see her red blood against her fair skin. He would bleed her often, and this treatment began to twist her human so…