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and if u can tell who was that person,from real life,that inspired Bram Stoker to create the "Dracula" character.thank u..

2007-02-22 00:14:44 · 17 answers · asked by razza 3 in Society & Culture Mythology & Folklore

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romania

2007-02-22 00:17:21 · answer #1 · answered by ilovetosing. 3 · 0 0

Well, Bram Stoker's character was partially inspired by Vlad Dracul, a Romanian ruler. However, the real Vlad Dracul wasn't anything like Bram Stoker's character. He mostly just took the name. Sure, Vlad did torture people (he wasn't nicknamed Vlad the Impaler for nothing), but in reality it wasn't much worse than anything else that people were doing at the time. In Romania, he is still considered a national hero because he saved their country from foreign invasion, and Romanians are sometimes rather insulted by the fact that he's been turned into a vampire by outsiders.

2007-02-22 02:14:56 · answer #2 · answered by devouring_wind 4 · 0 0

The person Dracula was supposed to based on was Vlad III The Impaler, a particularly ruthless and powerful King in Wallachia, Romania He was called Vlad Dracl (Vlad the devil) However the actual mannerisms of Dracula were supposedly based on Stoker's tyrannical theatre manager Henry Irving.

2007-02-22 00:23:13 · answer #3 · answered by waggy 6 · 0 0

The person in real life was Vlad the Impaler. He was a Romanain Prince who reigned over Wallachia between 1431-1476. The name "Dracula" or "Draculea" was a label put on his father's receiving the Order of the Dragon (called a drac, or the devil). He was accused of being a tyrant with the aristocrats. But they also were cruel people, ready to betray anything and anyone for money. Vlad the Impaler was not a vampire. If you want to know more, just write on the google site about Vlad the Impaler.
He was just, saving my people (The Romanian people) from foreign invasions.

2007-02-22 04:56:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

The myth of Dracula comes from Romania, based on a guy called Vlad the Impaler, who was a noble who fought against turkish invasion. The vampire myth, however, is much older and has been found in several cultures among the ages.

2007-02-22 00:20:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

The myth stems from stories out of the Carpathian mountains in Romania, Dracula was modeled by the turk Vlad dracul.

2007-02-22 00:23:35 · answer #6 · answered by anita k 1 · 0 0

Count Vlad the Impaler of Romania inspired Dracula. He impaled many victims on stakes in various ways and was obviously so sadistic and bloodthirsty that tales grew that he had sold his soul to the satan and maintained perpetual life and youth by drinking the blood of his hundreds of victims

2007-02-22 04:08:25 · answer #7 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0 0

Well, most people believe that the myth of vampire came from Vladimir, the Impaler. But there are myths of vampires since the early tribes of Mesopotamia. But the vampire folklore just won fame in Vladimir's time, so most people associate him with vampirism. And who could blame them? Someone who impales so many people couldn't be completely normal... (If you don't know, impalement is one of the most painful death sentences. The method is simple, get a wooden spear, stick a piece of coal (so the victim may live until the very last end of this torture) and stick it through the anus and let the person "slip" until the wooden spear pierces through internal organs and exits through the neck or mouth.)

2016-05-23 22:41:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The myth is from Romania, and the personality of the false Dracula is actually a combination of three true personalities:
1. Vlad the 2nd, who ruled Transylvania and Wallachia, called himself "Dracul" after the "Unit of Dragons" in the Hungarian army, but later betrayed Hungary and became loyal to the Ottoman Empire (today's Turkey). "Dracul" also means a ghost. So that is how the false Dracula became a ghost.
2. Vlad the Third, one of Dracul's sons. who, for that reason, called himself "Dracula". Other people used to call him "Vlad Tepes" (Vlad the impaler). He used to have banquets between tall sticks on which people were impaled on his orders, and some say he also used to dip his bread in the blood of people killed on his orders, and eat the bread. both lived in the 15th Century.
3. An East European princess, whose name was Elizabeth, used to suck blood of servants in her castle, and was therefor locked in a room for the rest of her life. She lived in the 19th Century.

2007-02-23 02:17:22 · answer #9 · answered by Avner Eliyahu R 6 · 0 0

Romania

2007-02-22 00:19:12 · answer #10 · answered by Tommy 6 · 0 0

Romania - Vlad Tepesh

2007-02-22 00:18:24 · answer #11 · answered by Lady79 2 · 0 0

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