VAMPIRES
When someone even says Vampire it conjures up the thoughts of the old movies, of a creature walking the earth sucking innocent females blood. This page to help people better understand one of history's greatest fact and fiction.
In every culture there is some story of a being that walks the night drink on a person's life giveing fluid, BLOOD. This being can change shapes to became a bat, wolf, a cloud of gas, and many other forms. So is this fact or fiction? I'm studying to help others see the fact and fiction's of the story's. Enjoy as we go along.
How did Bram Stoker get his idea for Dracula? Could vampires and the story of Count Dracula be real?
Well most people know there was a Dracula, he wasn't a count, but a prince. His actions were vampiric, so say the myths in Romanian. But for his actions, inspired Bram Stoker's 1897 novel on the man know as Vlad the Impaler.
(Full name: Vlad Dracula III, AKA Vlad Tepes/Tsepesh) Dracul means "Son of the Dragon", or "Son of the Devil."
There is controversy over whether or not
"Dracul"
means
"Dragon"
or actually
"Devil"
, because the two words are almost said the same in Romania. The
"a"
stands for
"offspring of."
Born in in the Transylvanian town of Sighisoara in 1431 to Vlad Dracul II and Princess Cneajna, Vlad III was heir to his father's throne in Wallachia and a voivode (prince/governor) who joined the Order of the Dragon, an order founded by the Holy Roman Emperor in 1387 for the objectives of protecting the German king, defending Catholicism against the partisans of Jan Hus and other heretics, and crusading against the infidel Ottoman Turks. His father preceded him as a member of the order.
For the sake of Wallachia's safety, Vlad Dracula III's father turned he and his brother over to the Turks, the mortal enemies of his family and country. In late 1447, both Prince Vlad Dracul II and Mircea Dracula, Vlad III's older brother, broke their pact with the Turkish Sultan and were caught and assassinated in marshes near Bucharest. Vlad Dracula was eventually allowed to claim power in Wallachia in 1448, but was soon overthrown. His mind set on vengeance and his heart pumping with rage, Vlad returned to Wallachia in 1456 with the support of Hungary, claimed his birthright, and showed his enemies no mercy in a reign that lasted until 1462. Taking up the ruthless practice of impaling his enemies (for which he will always be known historically as
"Vlad the Impaler" Vlad Tepes
), he decorated his entire courtyard with hundreds upon hundreds of long stakes, an impaled victim on every one. Romanian folklore says his mad hatred went beyond the enemies of his homeland into his own country, that he'd carve unborn babies from their unwed mothers, hammer nails into the skulls of ambassadors sent on errands of peace, seal and burn down halls where the poor would gather to eat and rest, among just a few of the grisly acts he was said to perform on whomever he deemed it justified on.
1462 saw the suicide of his Transylvanian first wife, who killed herself after hearing false news of her husband's death. At the end of 1462, however, the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus began to fear Vlad's restlessness and willpower, so he had him imprisoned for a period of twelve years, not releasing him until 1474. It was not until November of 1476 that Vlad was able to reclaim the title of voivode. During the course of his conflicts, Dracula had to abandon the Orthodox Christian faith and become a Roman Catholic to secure a much needed hard-and-fast military alliance with the Hungarians. This was secured with the marriage of his second wife, King Matthias' cousin, in 1475.
His bloody campaign against the Turks going on for decades, his battles finally came to an end one December in 1476. Decapitated in a marsh near Snagov by a Turkish assassin disguised as one of his own men, Vlad's head was allegedly taken back to Constantinople to be displayed before his enemies. His remains later buried near a monastery in Snagov, Vlad was thought laid to rest for eternity.
When excavation digs turned up empty centuries later, the mystery then began:
what happened to the body?
Bram Stoker had his own answer, written and told to the ages in the form of his famous novel, Dracula. Undead after a rebirth, his memories of his former life only a vague recollection in the back of his mind, Vlad Dracula embraced his vampirism, using his genius to the cause of evil and his own arcane purposes.
Prince Vlad Dracula III died in December of 1476. This we know. But the lingering question remains, embroidered in American myth: did he survive? And if so, and that answer lay in his becoming a vampire, then how did that transpire? How did Dracula defy the grave?
The information above was found in the biographical
Dracula: Prince of Many Faces - His Life and His Times (1989) , by Radu R. Florescu and Raymond T. McNally
. And refrased by me in places.
Well in my World there is no such thing as a living undead. But for something that might of happened: It say's in the "Centuries" when by before the excavation. With that amount of time the body would be dust. And during the times, grave robbers were not uncommon. And he would have had great clothes. Good to sell. This would explain the missing clothes. But you tell me. Did Vlad die? Or did he somehow brake out of death to life everlasting?
Here is Vlad pic.
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