How did the people come to the conclusion that Count Dracula had Fangs? I know that the real Dark Prince Dracula, was a savage man, who killed people and drove a stake threw their heads, and left them on this hill near his castle. So waht made them come up with that fact that he sucked blood and had fangs? I'm really into the vampire world, not as much as I want to, but I was just wondering.
2006-10-09 08:20:26 · 7 answers · asked by prettyartisichuskey 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
There are two separate things going on. Long before Vlad the Impaler came along, there were legends of vampyres. They didn't turn into bats, because before 1492, no one knew about bats who sucked blood. They turned into other beasts. Bram Stoker took a lot of the myths and legends about vampyres and combined them with a lot of the myths and legends surrounding Vlad Dracul (Dracul mean dragon, and Dracula means son of the dragon.). Bram Stoker combined these legends and added fictitious details in order to write a good novel. He succeeded. In parts of Wallachia, Vlad is not a sinister figure, but considered a great Christian knight who saved the area from Turkish invasion. Where myth, legend and reality collide, it's hard to sort out the exact order of precedence. But I feel pretty safe in saying that Bram Stoker gave Vlad his fangs.
2006-10-09 08:45:01 · answer #1 · answered by Rico Toasterman JPA 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Even though the author of _Dracula_, Bram Stoker, modeled his fictional vampire after the Wallachian prince known as Vlad the Impaler, there is little else to link the history of Vlad with vampires. Vlad III was known to torture his enemies, and impalement seemed to be his favorite method. There are tales of the king ordering mass impalements of thirty thousand at a time. Needless to say, some, especially the relatives of those killed, looked upon Vlad III as an inhuman monster. The people he protected, on the other hand, looked upon him as a hero. In Romania Vlad Dracula is still remembered as a national hero.
As for the fangs--I think the idea came rather easily from association with animals that have fangs, such as wolves and hematophagous bats.
2006-10-09 15:45:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First off not many people have really read about the legend of Dracula. They get their lesson from the movies or by word of someone else's mouth.. First off there are several different forms that a vampire comes in. They are all dangerous, And the all have the same goals. And your believing or dis-believing does not change to fact of their existence. Also all vampires do have fangs depending on their forms which can also determined where their fangs are located. I will recomend that many of you take a trip to your local library and read up on this for yourself's....... Who know even you might learn a thing or two...
2006-10-09 17:28:22 · answer #3 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The villagers were very frightened of what was happening so it's easy to see how they made the leap to thinking Dracula was drinking the victims' blood. I have known many Eastern Europeans and to this day they have superstitions concerning this horrible tale.
2006-10-09 15:35:48 · answer #4 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gotta thank Hollywood for that one. They just eaborated on the Vlad the Impailer story of drinking his victims blood. Guess they thoughtit was cooler to use fangs then just drinking blood from wounds.
2006-10-09 15:31:22 · answer #5 · answered by Wade 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well when they would dig up a corpse the gums would shrivel and make the teeth look bigger and more fang-like..also the blood would be pushed into the throat by the decompositional gases making it look like it fed on blood
2006-10-09 20:16:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
just another one of those stories that people like to make up to make the story more interesting...i dunno
2006-10-09 15:28:09 · answer #7 · answered by People4peace 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋