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Immortal1
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 posted on 09-24-2010 11:04 am
Despite what some people have put they are mostly wrong.
Vlad Tepse Vlad the Impaler Vlad Draco what ever you want to call him
ruled over a land close to Transylvania in th e1500's. He was a ruthless
leader known to impale his prisoners rather they be from other nations
or his own. Impaling is where a person is hoisted n top of a wooden
stake and allowed to fall down the stake until death. This was a very
slow and grizzily way to execute someone. It was a wide spread method
but Vlad isbelievedd to haveimpaledd over 300,000 by some estimations in
his short reign as Crown Prince of Wallachia. The mightyOttomannem
pierr feared Vlad and sought to kill him. Vlad however found help with
the Hungarians and other Wallachians. Three times he organized armies
and overthrew the Hungarian nobles theRomaniaa buyers and theOttomanss
to regain his country. We have stories mostly from the Germans and
Russians of Vlad inviting all the disabled and sickly people to a great
feast in his hall. After every guest arrived he boarded up the hall and
lit it on fire in order to kill every person not contributing to his
kingdom at once. Vlad ruled threeseparatee times and I believe his total
reign was only like 15 years. He was imprisoned by the Turks and
Hungarians several times. His own brother led a Turkish army against
himfinallyy ending the life of Vlad. His head was cut off and sent to
Constantinople Istanbull). His body was buried in SnajofMonasteryy. His
tomb was dug up and inside the bones of several dogs and cows were found
but no human remains.
Also Elizabeth Batholry was aHungariana duchesss. She ruled over a
tinyprovincee on the HungariaRomanianna border. During her reign she
took hundred of virgipeasantsns into her castle and drained them of
blood in order to drink adn bathe in it. She believed that the blood
would keep her from aging. Eventually the surrounding villages had no
young virgin daughters left so Elizabeth began to prey on the noble
children. That was her big mistake. The other nobles protested to the
king who had all oElizabeth'shs servants executed then Elizabeth herself
was locked in her castle and left to die.
Stoker would have heard these stories for sure anincorporateded them
into his book.
They myth of the vampire did nooriginalnl start in EasterEuropepe like
most people think today. The vampire is a worldwide concept like the
dragon that was not confined to a single cultural area. We are part of
the Western Culture so we have hear all the western stories of vampires
so it is a common misconceptionon to believe that the vampire legends
and stories started in Europe.
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posted on 09-24-2010 02:22 pm
Still no link eh? I expect you to find it and post it. I do not want to look again...
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posted on 09-24-2010 02:25 pm
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091130153757AAics2y
*sigh*
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