Dracula is one of the most powerful and colorful images in the history of world literature. Without a doubt, this is an ambiguous character.
Dracula - the vampire classic example: on the one hand, it is an elegant and thinking, on the other hand, he is bloodthirsty and constantly in anticipation of a new victim. The human blood for him - a source of food, and the purpose to which it is committed to all beings.
However, despite the huge amount of seducing women who took the life of Dracula cine, his crimes do not go to any comparison with the atrocities that are committed at the time the real Count Dracula. Vlad III, or Vlad Tepes, Prince of Wallachia (now Romania) became famous thanks to the following qualities and actions:
Vampire Dracula
1. Dracula moistened the bread in the bowl with the blood before him to eat
Real Count Dracula might not suck blood from the neck of his victims directly, but he still tried to eat her blood after he had people flowed into the cup, into which he dipped pieces of bread and other food.
In the fifteenth century manuscript mentioned a horrendous case of life bloody graph. Vlad Tepes invited to his castle and just a few guests at the dinner table is planted all at stake.
Then he slowly, finished his meal and pieces of bread dipped in the blood that flowed from the bodies of slain guests.That's the kind of "dessert" Dracula varnish often.
2. He avenged his father by killing hundreds of innocent people
He did not just kill people, he tormented them, slowly piercing their bellies with a blunt instrument of torture. It is known that most of his life Vlad Tepes spent in a Turkish prison, and when it was released, found that as a result of betrayal of his own people, his father was buried alive by Hungarian soldiers.
Vlad learned that a conspiracy against his father attended by many of the nobles who had served his father, but he did not know who was the traitor. He had the idea to invite all to his castle and deal with them. In total, the feast were about five hundred people.
When the celebration was over, and the guests went from room to room to rest, the soldiers rushed to each of Dracula and pierced nobles, most of whom were innocent in the death of the old count people.
Dracula has continued to use this tactic numerous times. Playing the hospitable owner, he lured people to his home for various holidays, and then killed them. Ultimately, people will know what it means to be invited to one of the events of Dracula, and that they face there.
However, in any case, they accepted his offer, because in case of failure, they risked being killed immediately. For many, it was a desperate situation. In any case, people waiting for a terrible and painful death.
Dragon and Dracula
3. Dracula means "son of the dragon"
The name Dracula was not invented Bram Stoker. The real Vlad Tepes, indeed, preferred to be called that way. Father bloodthirsty Count Vlad II, was a member of a secret society known as the Order of the Dragon.
He was so proud membership in this society, even changed his name to "Dracula", which translated from Romanian means "dragon".
As a child, Vlad Tepes, Jr. was also involved in the secret Order. This prompted him to change his own name in the name of Dracula, which means "Son of the Dragon". Today, the name of the count more often translated as "son of the devil."
In any case, such a scary name was quite compatible with those actions, which made the young Dracula. Absolutely deserved reputation of Vlad Tepes was bloody and horrible monster.
4. Dracula had a great sense of humor
This is indeed true. During his lifetime, the bloodthirsty Count not only killed and tortured their victims. According to those who knew quite well Vlada, he often joked sharply enough on a particular occasion. His sense of humor could envy. Especially caustic jokes blew it against the unfortunate victims.
For example, one of the witnesses of those terrible meals in Dracula's castle later wrote in his memoirs, Count, watching as emit the spirit of the unfortunate victims, casually remarked: what grace have my sacrifices, how interesting they move when they are put On stake. He compared the dying convulsions with the movements of the frog.
Once at the castle, filled with corpses, come next visitor count. And as in the air was the smell of decaying bodies, the host politely inquired whether the stench does not interfere with his guests.
What an unfortunate replied that yes, interferes. Then the graph pierced him and hung from the ceiling, arguing that the smell of the ceiling is not so bad, and the stench is greater than disturb the unwary visitor.
School Dracula
5. The only punishment was - impalement
The easiest way to think that Dracula was lonely and unhappy madman who killed people for no reason. However, this is not the case. Count administer justice as would be terrible as it may sound.
In those days there were only punishment regardless of what crime committed people. On the number of planted like murderers and petty thieves, that in order not to starve to death, dragged bread from confectionery.
However, it is known at least one exception to the rule when applied Dracula other form of punishment. One day, crossing the territory belonging to the bloody Count one Gypsies stole something. Dracula was ruthless this time. He cooked the unfortunate thief then made other Roma from the camp to eat it.
6. He got rid of all the sick and the poor, burning them at the stake
Thus Earl tried to restore order in the streets of the town of Targovishte, at the time was the capital of Wallachia.
Once Tepes invited all patients, vagrants and beggars in one of their houses under the pretext of a holiday. After the poor man had eaten their fill, Dracula politely excused himself and left his "guests."
On his orders, the house was boarded up from the outside, so that no one could escape. Then the house was set on fire with everyone inside.
It is known that no one survived that terrible conflagration, which gave the bloodthirsty count. Subsequently, Dracula did so repeatedly, burning entire villages inhabited by the poor and sick people. So inhuman way he "cleansed" villages and towns of all those considered superfluous in this world.
7. The Golden Bowl - a symbol of unlimited power
Vlad Tepes controlled their people rather rigidly, stopping any kind of crime. To prove just how powerful his power and how much the people were afraid of him, he commanded the center of Targoviste put huge bowl cast from pure gold.
For a long time the cup was in the heart of the capital of Wallachia. However, none of the 60,000 people who lived then in the city, did not even dare to touch it. Any resident knew that he could face if the cup is stolen.
Throughout the reign of the count, nobody even touched this character Dracula's power, although the cup was in sight of thousands of people living in absolute poverty. That kind of fear instilled in people the mere name of Vlad Tepes.
8. To poison the Turkish invaders, Earl poured poison their own wells and wells
In the 1400s Wallachia was at war with its neighbors, the Turks. Vlad III, who did not like to lose, he sent his army to drive out the enemy from their land.
But in the end, as a result of persistent struggle, forced the Turks to retreat Vlad. However, even retreating, Dracula did not give up. He burned all the villages in the path of the Turkish army. He did so with the expectation that the enemy will have no place to rest.
Dracula has gone so far that has poisoned their own water wells. Together with the Turks were poisoned and thousands of villagers. Feelings of compassion and pity were not familiar Tepes. In war, all means are good, even if innocent people are killed.
Dracula the Impaler
9. A total of Dracula killed more than 100,000 people
Historians claim that the victims of the bloodthirsty Count, could be up to 100,000 people.
For Tepes there was no sex, age and status restrictions. He could have killed the old man, and could impaled innocent baby. At the same time, not disdaining anything, he calmly finished his meal.
Witnesses said that at that time, they shudder to look at everything that happens, the graph only joking, and quietly ate up lunch or dinner.
During the war with the Turks, about 20,000 soldiers of the enemy army had been impaled.
Vlad Dracula
10. The body of Dracula disappeared
Graf, who feared and hated their own people, died on the battlefield during the war with the Turks. His bloodlust played a trick on him. Dracula's army several times higher than the army enemy army in numbers.
However, despite this obvious advantage, most of the soldiers decided to go to the enemy. After all, in the camp of the enemy did not have such severe punishment as Dracula. People fed up with the brutality of their ruler, without hesitation, went to betrayal.
The Death of Dracula
Dracula's head chopped off his own soldiers, and then sent it to the Turkish sultan. That, in turn, stabbing her spear, put it on a stake outside his palace, so that every passer-by could see the head of the defeated tyrant.
Some historians claim that the body of Dracula then betrayed the ground in the cemetery of the monastery of Snagov, located outside Bucharest.
But there are conflicting reports that his body was never found, while others say it remains possible, indeed, have been discovered, but then disappeared. There is a theory that the body of Dracula was buried with all its riches.
Thus, the tomb of the tyrant became a good target for robbers, who, together with the treasures smashed to pieces and the remains Tepes. Well, the mystical version - is that Dracula's body disappeared on its own, because he's been a real dragon.
Vlad Tepes, Count of Wallachia, was unusual villain: I think that suffering, by - his miserable and lonely. His victims were thousands of people. His whole life was shrouded in mystery. This mystic has left the image of Dracula, and after death.
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