do you belive in Dracula? i personally dont?

Question

whats your views?

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

Ok here's the deal ( I beg pardon for any spelling errors).

Vlad Tepesh was the son of Vladoslos Dracu. Dracu in Romanion means Dragon and when you add the la at the end it translates into Son of the Dragon.
Vlad was also called Vlad the Impaler because he was known to decapitate his prisoners and place the heads on a pike. The Vampire legend evolved out of the fact that he would drink the blood of the decapitated person to take in their strength.
Brahm Stoker took all this info and incorporated it with the legend of the Nosferatu or walking dead and thus the vampire story of Count Dracula was born. The fact that noone can account for the whereabouts of Vlad's body after his death at the hands of the Ottomen Nobles (even to this day) has helped to perpetuate the Immortal theory or belief.

So yes the MAN Vlad Dracula did in fact exist....NO the VAMPIRE Dracula does not exist.
This is what happens when you mix real life with a good dose of imagination sprinkled with the belief that someone who led a life of evil could come back to life to countinue their evil ways unless they were stopped (stake in the heart, decapitation, exposer to the sun).

FYI---it was believed that the night could hide all things but the daylight alsways revealed the truth.

Answer 3

Dracula did exist in fact there were many Vlad Dracul The Impaler was the most famous he was a prince who fought the Ottoman Turks . He was infamous for impaling hes enemies on stakes . There were rumours of bizarre rituals it was this and the folk tradition of vampires that influenced Bram Stoker to write Dracula.

Answer 4

There was a historical person called Vlad the Impaler, who seems to have played a large part in inspiring Bram Stoker. He was known as Vlad Dracula, with the Dracula meaning "son of the Dragon".

Psychic vampires, maybe. There are people who seem to drain people around them of energy. Some times they only do it when they are really stressed.

There is a part of the subculture, who might drink blood. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_lifestyle

Physical vampires, like in the movies, no.

Answer 5

I do. I read the book. I believe it was written, I believe I paid for it. I believe it has been a basis for several films. What else is there not to believe in it??

As to the character, a Dracula existed, look up the name of Vlad Tepes the Impaler. A nobleman, cruel and bloodthirsty (in a figurative way).

Bu the Dracula that flies at night and drinks blood of innocent maidens, does not exist nor the innocent maidens that were his nightly diet.

Answer 6

I believe in Dracula as the product of Bram Stoker's Gothic romance novel by the same name as well as other writers tales of similar creatures. Fun to read, but it doesn't make me keep the light on a night.

There have been many folklore tales about creatures that drink the blood of the living - it's one of the primal fears that human cultures have.

Do I think there is an actual Count that goes around drinking people's blood? No.

Answer 7

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a purely fictional account, but drew inspiration from the Slavic vampyr and the infamous Vlad Tepes, Drakula (which means son of the Dragon). Vlad was an important Christian crusader who was a Prince in Transylvania (current Romania, formerly part of Hungary). When Vlad was 12, his father was killed by the Turks in a battle, and Vlad was taken prisoner (and subsequently, some say, raped) by the Sultan. He spent over 10 years as a captive of the Turks, and was eventually ransomed. He developed a fierce (but perhaps justified) hatred of the Turks, and proceeded to wage war against them, effectively slowing their advance into the Holy Roman Empire (the Emperor at that time being Austrian). He was knighted by the Pope for his efforts. However, in addition to being a brilliant military strategist and valiant warrior, he was also deeply disturbed and sadistic. He earned the moniker “the Impaler” from a nasty fetish of his - there are accounts of a Turkish general who had been ordered, on pain of death, to locate and destroy Tepes. He came upon what first appeared to be a forest but, on closer inspection, discovered it to be the remains of an entire village, regarded as rebels by Tepes, impaled on stakes (impaling was a nasty way to die - the stakes were first inserted into the rectum, then the body and stake were raised upright, the body weight of the victim slowly causing the stake to pierce his bowels and stomach - sometimes it took days to die). Every man, woman and child had been executed in this manner, with a number of infants and even dogs being reported. The general was so horrified he returned to face the headsman's axe of the Sultan, saying only "What could we do to a man capable of doing such a thing to his own people?” His atrocities eventually attracted the attention of Matthias, the Hungarian King, who had him arrested and imprisoned, where he supposedly died. Regardless, Vlad is still considered a hero of the Romanian people, and (one of) his (many) castle(s), Castle Bran, is a popular tourist attraction. His ghost is said to haunt a lake at another castle, where his remains, and the chapel in which he was buried, were swept off the banks of the lake into the water on the eve of his burial. He was a brilliant if twisted soul, and one whose life makes fascinating reading if you are so inclined.

Answer 8

i think most tales come from gossip that still goes onto this day.... i live in a large town and when something happens like a murder you can guarentee there will be ten different versions of what actually happened flying about the town within a few days and each version is longer and more gory than the last..... thats how i beleive all these folkelaw stories came about. dracula was probably a murderer/canabal that bit his victims necks or something..... a wearwolf was probably someone who had that hair condition that covers the whole body..... and so on and so on........ just my thoughts

Answer 9

Dracula was a fictional character, therefore the questions of belief or non-belief is irrelevant. As for the existence of vampires, that is a different matter entirely.

Answer 10

Dracula is a fictional character so you can believe in him as a character in a book. I supposed to be based on Dracule who was I a minor ruler in somewhere is east Europe and had a reputation of impaling people on stakes if he did not like them

Answer 11

Yes, I do believe he existed. Vlad Tepes, Aka Vlad the impaler did live and rule in Wallachia/Transylvania where he was acclaimed as the defender of Christendom by no lesser authority than the pope.

Do I believe in a blood sucking iunvention of bram Stoker no but that doesn't stop me enjoying his book immensely.