Usually means: Headless rider from Irish folklore.
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  1. Dullahan, dullahan: Wiktionary
  2. Dullahan (horse), Dullahan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Dullahan: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dullahan)

noun:  (fantasy, Irish mythology) A black-clad (usually male) horserider in Irish folklore which carries its severed head like a lantern and may be repelled by gold; when it stops riding (or calls out someone's name), someone will die. (Also called the Gan Ceann, Irish for "[one] without a head".)
noun:  A surname from Irish.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of dullahan [(fantasy, Irish mythology) A black-clad (usually male) horserider in Irish folklore which carries its severed head like a lantern and may be repelled by gold; when it stops riding (or calls out someone's name), someone will die. (Also called the Gan Ceann, Irish for "[one] without a head".)]

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