2006-12-17 16:35:31 · 9 answers · asked by Cinnamon 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
the name Dracula means son of Dracul. Dracul means dragon or devil depending on useage in Romania. Dracul was an order of the priesthood designed to protect not only the church but the sanctity of the land. Therefore they were thought of as dragons (fierce creatures that inspired knowledge and loyalty) but also devils (1 to guard against the devil and 2 to be as fierce as a devil....it was a mixed world back then)
Therefore Vlad became Dracula by default, since he was the son of one of these Order of the Draculs.
The legend of the vampire kind of mixes up a lot of information all at once, thanks in most part to Bram Stoker's book Dracula.
Vlad was said to be a vile murderer by his enemies and a great lord by his people, of course the people could not say a word differently for fear of the sentence they would receive for not being gracious enough to their lord who protected the lands from invaders. Vlad's favorite death sentence for everything from invading armies to common people stealing bread was impaling. It was written Vlad enjoyed eating in his forest of impaled criminals. When once visited by an ambassador from another country, the ambassador did not don his hat to the Lord and in turn, the Lord had his hat nailed to his head because the ambassador disrespected him in public. Another story tells of how a shop keeper complained his money was stolen. Vlad issued a decree that if the money was not returned the whole town would be impaled, regardless if the thief returned the money or not, Vlad had the precise amount of money returned plus one additional coin. The shop keeper made it known that he was thankful for Vlad's decree as the money was returned with an extra coin as interest. Vlad then responded something on the order of how wonderful it was to live with honest people.....if the shop keeper had not mentioned the extra coin he would have been impaled for thievery. Vlad had a nice side to him, it was just tempered with a strict discipline of keeping others honest.
Regardless, it was the Turks who painted Vlad in such a nefarious delight saying he was akin to a demon and so forth and so on. The Turks had such influence that the story stayed alive, mixing with it other ideas of what weird nobles did with blood.
believe it or not the early version of the vampire had no so much with drinking blood as it did with corrupting the soul and barring it entrance from heaven. It wasn't until another Lady of distinguishable repute fell under sway that virgin blood had a magical power to keep others from growing older. This Lady would have a bath in a virgin's blood each night. This was one of the specific reasons of how drinking blood became so prominent in vampire lore.
2006-12-17 17:50:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
I in simple terms watched a tutor approximately that final night. It became a large tutor and defined it, yet i do no longer remember each and all of the significant factors and it may take too long to tell you what I do remember. yet in actuality it has to do with Vlad going by making use of the call Dracul, meaning Dragon and likewise devil in Romanian. He became supposedly a ruthless murderer. That blended with some historic Romanian folklore plus Bram Stoker = the Dracula all of us understand and love as we talk. i think of the tutor became on the history Channel or history international.
2016-10-15 03:57:34 · answer #2 · answered by balick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The modern vampire mythos is largely the work of Bram Stoker, who throughly researched vampire myths from a variety of cultures and tagged it to a historical character to compose his ultimate supervillain.
Vampires are a universal mythological symbol that occur in all cultures. Blood is symbolic of life and power. The ultimate evil - linked to darkness and the creatures of the night - has the power to steal it. The idea for bats in particular was inspired by the vampire bat of the Americas, only recently made known to Europeans at Stoker's time.
Dracula roughly translates as 'dragon lord' and was the hereditary title of the noble family that Vlad was a part of. They were ruthless despots and valient defenders of the Transylvanian region against Turkish incursions. Their gruesome tactics earned them the fear and hatred of allies and enemies alike. Therefore, the commoners started nasy rumors about them, that they drank blood and dabbled in witchcaft.
Stoker discovered these legends in his research, then followed them to their logical conclusion. What if these guys were vampires? What if they were brilliant generals and fierce warriors because of dark pacts and immortal experience? How does he gain superior strength and longevity? By the drinking of blood. How does he get access to victims? By transforming into a bat.
2006-12-17 17:22:46 · answer #3 · answered by markjo222 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
vlad the impaler of Wallacia used to drink the blood of his enemies. Not as a weird, zombie type of thing. More for intimidation. Then the whole story came down to be and all that.
2006-12-17 16:38:37 · answer #4 · answered by JIMMY j 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Vampires have been around for a very long time. If you read the bible, one name is mentioned ONCE and her name is Lillith. The bible won't tell you that she was the first wife of Adam, but the whole book's demented.
During the life of recorded events, there have been big names inside of books, including Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who was a part of the Vampyre bloodline. Proof of this exists in a biography.
Long story short, she struck one of her waitress girls. The area of skin where the blood landed actually became softer, and thus began a trend of Elizabeth Bathory's legendary story of sending out soldiers oftentimes to get the larger women, and preferrably virgins, for the purpose of draining the blood from their bodies so that Bathory could literally bathe in the blood.
She had 3 consecutive children, and still continued her reign of terror. By the time they finally locked her up in a brick wall where she perished, she was in her 50's. Apparently she still looked 25 years old.
Her three children grew to take her place and continued to extend the family line. Anyone in this bloodline (up to this day, actually) who were buried were exhumed and appeared to be freshly buried.
And thus, the Vampyres.
Mr. Impaler is an example of one such in the bloodline. He drank his enemies' blood, and becaome known for just that.
2006-12-17 16:44:52 · answer #5 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
ok he lived in the right place, dark forbidding mountains. and after his wife was killed by invaders he killed as many of those invaders as he could and put them on stakes. then he began doing it to others who did things aginst him, and he worked his way into folk tales in the area over the years. then bram stoker wrote the definitive first real vampire story in victorian england, and away we go, off on a huge rampage of horror stories. frankenstine, wolfman and so on. it was all fueled i think by Jack the rippers murders in the same time period.
2006-12-17 19:33:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2006-12-17 23:11:02 · answer #7 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You have to go back to the story of Cain and Able in the Bible for the orgin of Vampires and it is no myth!
2006-12-17 19:12:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
i think he drank his enemies' blood
2006-12-17 16:44:13 · answer #9 · answered by eNdofthELinE9 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋