Who is Count Dracula?

Question

I am not speaking of VLAD THE IMPALER. Just the fiction character Dracula.

Answer 1

The vampire in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula. His features are aquiline, his manner aristocratic. He drinks the blood of young women, and is destroyed through the work of several people, including Jonathon Harker and Van Helsing.

Answer 2

The very first appearance of "Count Dracula" is in Bram Stoker's novel DRACULA (1897).
But Stoker did not make up the name "Dracula".

There was a Dracula in the 15th century: Vlad the Impaler. Stoker didn't know much about him (at least I don't think he did) but he came across his name in a book he was researching entitled AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPALITIES OF WALLACHIA AND MOLDAVIA (1820). This book has a very short section on a "Voivode Dracula" who fought against the Turks. What attracted Stoker to the name "Dracula" was a footnote by Wilkinson which stated that "Dracula in the Wallachian language means devil". Not quite accurate, but that is what Stoker saw and copied into his notes. He was originally going to call his vampire "Count Wampyr" but changed it to "Count Dracula." This change is clearly made in Stoker's own notes for DRACULA which are located at the Rosenbach Museum in philadelphia.

The real Dracula (about whom we know much more than Stoker ever did) was NOT a Count, nor was he a vampire (or ever associated with vampires). The two Draculas have become greatly confused in many people's minds.

Answer 3

Vlad Dracula (1431 - 1476)

In 1431, Romania's most famous son, Vlad Tepes, or Count Dracula as we know him familiarly, was born in Sighisoara, Transylvania. At least that's what the guide books say. Dracula is linked to many places in Transylvania on shaky evidence but there is no doubt that he roamed the forests and valleys of Romania during the 15th century. The popular image of Dracula is of a blood-sucking vampire, who snoozes in a coffin and turns into a bat when the sun goes down owes much to Bram Stoker who created this blood-thirsty Nosferatu based on the equally gory heroics of a real Romanian Prince in his novel published in 1897.

Who was Dracula?

Vlad Dracula was actually a Wallachian warlord who fought against the Turkish invaders during the 15th century. The name Dracula came from his father who also fought the Turks; Dracul meant Dragon (from a German order of knights) hence Vlad Dracula "son of the dragon". Vlad had a passion for impaling his enemies on huge stakes and picked up the catchy nickname of Tepes - the Impaler. Vlad was a little psychotic and regularly took to having his dinning table placed outside near the dying so that he could watch the show whilst having dinner. On one occasion there were so many impaled enemies hanging around that the area became known as the "Forest of the Impaled".

Despite his cruel and savage reputation Vlad Tepes is a national hero, remembered for defending Romania against the invading Ottoman Empire and references to him can be found all over Romania.

Answer 4

The origional vampire Dracula was once human-a great war mongrol in early 15 century Novoscogia-he was bit (by a bat) on the battle field one glorious morning and became the legendary incarnate of evil we all know and love! Count Cladissius Veron Draculia!

Answer 5

dracula was the 1st vampire. he is the fathers of vampires he is dracula u needa watch dracula 2000 and some dracula movies

Answer 6

Boris Carloft

Answer 7

A composite of middle European legends dealing with vampires invented by Bram Stoker.

Answer 8

A vampire that walked the earth @ night & sucked blood from humans. he could also turn into a bat and fly away.

Answer 9

i think he's a vampire that turned into a cartoon character on a cereal box

sorry if im wrong =x

Answer 10

he is made up from Vlad Draqula