What is the difference between vampire and dracula?

Answer 1

A vampire is someone who drinks blood and Dracula is the name of a particular vampire. That's like saying what is the difference between man and John.

Answer 2

A vampire is a vampire and Dracula is the name of one particular a vampire. Typically he's depicted as being a very powerful vampire compared to others during his time. That is all BS though. The name Dracula came from Vlad Dracul the Impaler who was a real person.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_Tepes

Answer 3

Dracula is the name of a vampire. Dracula is just the most famous of vampires.

Answer 4

A vampire is a bloodsucker with fangs. Dracula is the name of a vampire character created by Bram Stoker (author of the book "Dracula").

Answer 5

Well you could look at it like this:

Vampires, in most myths and legends, are created by other vampires. Either being bitten, drained of blood and then fed some of the vampires own blood. Or just from being bitten by a vampire.

Dracula was not created by another vampire. He renounced God and turned to the devil to receive the curse of immortality (vampirism) so that he could have revenge on the people who killed his beloved.

So, the difference is that normal vampires are created by another vampire, Dracula renounced God and was cursed into being a vampire.

Answer 6

Nothing really, since dracula is a vampire.

Answer 7

Dracula is a fictional character who is a vampire.

Answer 8

The word "vampire" first shows up in the English language in 1734, in a translation from the French (vampir) of a 1732 book about Hungarian vampires (from Hung. vampir, from Serb. vampir, Bulg. vapir, Ukrainian uper, believed by linguists to be ultimately from Kazan /Tatar ubyr "witch.") The term is used to describe an Eastern European mythological creature, who is "undead" and lives of the living.) However there are scattered English accounts of night-walking, blood-gorged, plague-spreading undead corpses from as far back as 1196, and many cultures have some sort of "blood-sucking" phantom (like the Greek Lamia.) The term vampire was already being applied to blood-drinking animals by 1774 when the French biologist Buffon to a species of South American blood-sucking bat.
see this site for a fuller history of vampires in general:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire

Dracula is the name of a late 19th c. "gothic" novel by British author Bram Stoker. He had done a lot of research about South-eastern European myths and superstitions. He was going to call his book Count Wampyr (vampire) when in his reading of Romanian history he learned about "the order of the Dragon" (dracul) a medieval order of knighthood established by a ruler of Poland, Hungary, Transylvania. He adopted this name for his main character, Count Dracula. Although some scholars claim that the character of Dracula is based on the historical character Vlad "the impaler" a Romanian warlord who was, indeed, a member of the order and therefore called Vlad Dracula, this theory is not universally accepted, and it seems that Stoker simply created the name for his character and loosely based him on the myth-traditions of vampires that were prevalent throughout the Balkans. Here is a site about Stoker and his book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula

So the answer is that "vampire" is a general category of "undead blood-sucking" creatures, and Dracula is the name of a character in a novel who is a vampire.

Answer 9

Dracula is a famous vampire who got discovered so they made a movie out of it....after they hired Buffy the Vampire Slayer to kill him =)

Answer 10

Dracula - Male
Vampire - Female ..