Post by Zadkiel on Jun 3, 2016 11:40:10 GMT
The Dracula character was inspired by a 15th Century Romanian warlord that impaled his victims with a wooden stake and then covered the landscape with the decaying bodies to scare off his enemies. This warlord was named Vlad III. Vlad II, his father, was indoctrinated into the Order of the Dragon around 1431 and he was thereafter known as Vlad Dracul.
Vlad III's impaling ways had earned him the nickname Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler. Those that preferred to avoid the "impaler" title instead called him Dracula, which translates to "son of the Dragon."
The historical Dracula, however, was never associated with vampire lore until Bram Stoker's eponymous novel, but this fact seems lost on the thousands of tourists that each year visit Romania to see "Dracula's Castle".
Vlad III's impaling ways had earned him the nickname Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler. Those that preferred to avoid the "impaler" title instead called him Dracula, which translates to "son of the Dragon."
The historical Dracula, however, was never associated with vampire lore until Bram Stoker's eponymous novel, but this fact seems lost on the thousands of tourists that each year visit Romania to see "Dracula's Castle".
