Has anyone heard of Vlad the impaler?

Question

Was he a Vampire or just a very evil wicked man?

Answer 1

Historically he was a very nasty piece of work, and by some accounts he seems to be Bram Stoker's inspiration for his character Dracula...
In the real world there is no such thing as a Vampire in human form, so he was just a very evil blood-thirsty man :-}

Answer 2

Vlad Tepes aka Vlad the Impaler, also known as one of the members to the Order Of Draconis. Which was founded by Vlad the 2nd.
Vlad was known to drink the blood of his enemies and also nailed peoples hats to their heads if the didn't take them off when in his presence or he didn't like the hat whilst in his Keep. He has changed religions more than a snake sheds it skin to gain the trusts of his enemies, to better defeat them. Their is alot of Mythos surrounding him and including that one of his maidens if he was a Vampire would of been Lilith.
However to this day his body has never been recovered and that included the great battle against the MuslimTurks and under his Keep his Mausoleum was also empty.
Vlad also staked his own town folk and enemy alike to show that he would never give into defeat and thus maybe the first person to use terrorism. His tyranny new no bounds and he was a great inventor to the sadistic arts.

Answer 3

He was not evil or a vampire. He was called vlad the impaler because he impaled his enemys after battle on long spears and left them the fields as an example. He was a hero and still is a hero to the people of romania, he saved them in battle againist an enemys army.

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Answer 4

Vlad Dracula, or Vlad Tepes was a prince of Walachia (much of which is now recognized as Romania). Brahm Stoker based his Dracula story on Vlad Tepes (Vlad, The Impaler). Vlad did have a violent history, and got his name from one of the ways he killed his enemies -- setting them on long spikes so they were impaled.

However, he also was a good military leader and is credited for bringing a nominal stability to the area. Indeed, he's still regarded as a folk hero in some parts of Romania.

Answer 5

vlad the impaler, or vlad tepes, Impaled in hungarian, was a ruler of the areas around constantinople, and had so many wars with the turks. He was supposledly sold by his father to the turks for a peace offering, and thus learned the turkish way of war. His order, like our free masons was to honor and protect and defend the churches of romania, with a coat of arms, established by his fathers generation called the order of the drakul, ( Pronounced Draa kool )or dragon. His impaling practice was actually to keep from fighting, he would use it to scare off invading armies, by lining the streets to his castle with impaled dying enimies, some say he was arrogant, some romanians call him a great hero. To the dracula legend, ie, bram stoker, supposedly vlad's blasphemy and sworn screaming words in the cathedral is what made part of brams research so easy. Either way read up on it, youll draw your own conclusion. But to see where some of stokers research came from, watch closely the first part of the movie bram stokers dracula. When elizabeth commits suicide, and the church refuses to give her peace, no matter what vlad meant to their order, he strikes the host in the center of the alter's cross, scream he renounces god, twice, then as blood pours from the split host, he grabs the grail and drinks of it, the literal translaion in hungarian is, i will embrace the dark master and rise from my own grave to avenge her. His screams in the movie is when he realizes he is now cursed by god.

Answer 6

He was the prince of Romania. His father was Drago (the dragon) when Vlad was born, he was called Dracula (the son of the dragon) He went to war with the Turkish army. He would have his enemies impaled and the spears (or stakes) would be placed upright in the ground. This was a way of tourture. As the blood of his enemies flowed down the spear, he gathered it in a bowl and dipped bread in it. This was a symbol of victory for him. I know, it's sick huh?

Answer 7

Vlad the Impaler was the ONE person who coined the phrase
"put his head on a pike"
I don't know about you.... but back in the dark-ages when guillotine was used ........ the head stays alive for a few minutes that's kinda creepy.

Just imagine yourself as a person who is sent to the gillitine ..... has his head cut off..... your bud calls your name, and your eyes open and look around.
Vlad the impaler did "one up" put your head on a pike


OOOOOOOOOOOOOO CREEPY Scares the "S" out of me

Answer 8

He was just a very evil man. Vlad III the Impaler also known as Vlad Dracula (December, 1431 – December 1476) was Prince of Wallachia. In the English-speaking world, Vlad is best known for the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for serving as the primary inspiration for the name of the vampire main character in Bram Stoker's popular Dracula novel.

Impalement was Ţepeş's preferred method of torture and execution. His method of torture was a horse attached to each of the victim's legs as a sharpened stake was gradually forced into the body. The end of the stake was usually oiled, and care was taken that the stake not be too sharp; else the victim might die too rapidly from shock. Normally the stake was inserted into the body through the anus and was often forced through the body until it emerged from the mouth. However, there were many instances where victims were impaled through other bodily orifices or through the abdomen or chest. Infants were sometimes impaled on the stake forced through their mother's chests. The records indicate that victims were sometimes impaled so that they hung upside down on the stake.

As expected, death by impalement was slow and painful. Victims sometimes endured for hours or days. Vlad often had the stakes arranged in various geometric patterns. The most common pattern was a ring of concentric circles in the outskirts of a city that constituted his target. The height of the spear indicated the rank of the victim. The corpses were often left decaying for months.

The list of tortures he is alleged to have employed is extensive: nails in heads, cutting off limbs, blinding, strangulation, burning, cutting off noses and ears, mutilation of sexual organs (especially in the case of women), scalping, skinning, exposure to the elements or to animals, and boiling alive.
Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_impaler

Answer 9

He was certainly very brutal. The act of impaling was significant to Eastern European folklore. Impaling the body or heart was thought to suspend the soul. This, and the bloody nature of his acts, is why he became linked to vampiric legends.

Answer 10

He was a brutal person who impaled his enemies upon huge stakes and left them to die. The road to his castle, now Castle Dracula in Transvylvania, was lined with the dead and dying impaled on these stakes. It was him that Dracula was based upon.

However, the Countess Bathory killed hundreds of virgins and bathed in their blood because she thought it would keep her young. When caught, she was not allowed to be executed as she was still royalty so she was held prisoner in her rooms until she died. The blood keeping you young thing is associated with her and her obsession.