what is the difference berween a vampire a dracula and a beowulf according to their origins, mythologically?

Question

Though easy to differentiate a, a beowulf from other two, can anyone please tell me exact difference between a dracula and a vampire?

Answer 1

There's no such thing as a creature called beowulf - Beowulf was the proper name of an epic warrior hero in Norse Mythology who fought and killed the monster Grendel as well as Grendel's mother. (link to the wikipedia page on Beowulf is below.)

A vampire is a folkloric creature neither living nor entirely dead that preys upon mankind in order to obtain an unnatural form of immortality. The vampire legend spans many cultures, and vampires from different regions posess different abilities. There is literally nowhere on Earth where a creature that may be described as a vampire cannot be found in local legend.

In Bram Stoker's 1897 novel "Dracula," the titular villan is an centuries old Romanian vampire, possing the folkloric abilities to change into, among other things, a bat, a slew of rats, and mist. The creature, as is common in vampire legends, drains the blood of its victims in order to sustain its own existence.

Answer 2

I don't know officially, but I remember the Boris Karloff movies where he played Count Dracula who was a vampire that liked to suck blood, thereby killing his victims but could not stand the cross of Christ. Beowulf was the hero in the early literary classic from the so called "dark ages" (around 800 AD) epic who killed the dragon. He was good. Were you wondering about a werewolf? A werewolf is a strange transformation from a human form to a wolf form on a full moon. I think I have heard some people have actually had this malady, no kidding! Can anyone confirm that? List source please.

Answer 3

Dracula was a real person. Vlad Dracul, Vlad the Impaler, was a Romanian prince in the 15th century or so. He was called the impaler because anyone who crossed him ended up on the end of a spit in front of his castle. Many believe this to be the origin of the Dracula Legend. Vampires are purely fictitious characters. They exist only in folklore and legend.

Answer 4

Dracula,in maximum cultural references,is the main admired vampire of all of them.your query doesnt make any experience because of the fact because of the fact Dracula became a vampire,there is not any difference he's one.whilst you're talking appropriate to the variation between Dracula and a now not so admired vamp,the sole difference is Dracula is established notwithstanding they have the comparable strengths and weaknesses