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VLAD DRACUL
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THE TRUE DRACULA
The name Dracula was applied to VLAD during his lifetime. It was
derived from drac, a Romanian word that can be interpreted variously
as "devil" or "dragon." In 1431, shortly after VLAD Dracula's birth,
Vlad's father had joined the order of the Dragon, a Christian
brotherhood dedicated to fighting the Turks. The oath of the order
required, among other things, wearing the order's insignia at all
times. The name Dracula means son of DRACUL or son of the dragon or
devil.
The actual birth date of VLAD, later known as VLAD The Impaler, is
unknown, but was probably late in 1430. He was born in Schassburg
(Sighisoara), a town in Transylvania. Soon after his birth, in
February 1431, his father VLAD DRACUL traveled to Nuremburg,
Germany, where he was invested with the insignia of the Order of the
Dragon. The accompanying oath dedicated the family to the fight
against the Turks, who begun an attack upon Europe that would
eventually carry them to the very gates of Vienna. VLAD was a
claimant to the throne of Wallachia, that part of Contemporary
Romania south of Transylvanian Alps. He was able to wrest the throne
from his half-brother in 1436.
Two years later, VLAD DRACUL entered an alliance with the Turks that
called for sending his two sons, Mircea and VLAD, with the Sultan on
a raid into Transylvania. The Sultan doubted the loyality of VLAD
DRACUL and had him imprisoned. DRACUL nevertheless reaffirmed his
loyality and had his two younger sons, VLAD (DRACUL had two sons
named VLAD, born to different mothers)and Radu, remain with the
Sultan to guarantee their pact. They were placed under house arrest
at Erigoz.
In December 1447 VLAD DRACUL was murdered along with his son Mircea
and his other son was burned alive under the orders of Hungarian
governor John Hunyadi ( Loande Hunedoara), with the assistance of
the Boyers, the ruling elite families of Wallachia. The death of
Mircea made VLAD the successor, but with Hunyadi's backing,
Vladislav II, a member of another branch of the family, assumed the
Wallachian throne. VLAD tried to claim the throne in 1448, but his
reign lasted only a couple of months before he was forced to flee to
the neighboring kingdom of Moldavia. In 1451, while he was at
Suceava, the Moldavian capital, the ruler was assassinated. For
whatever reasons, VLAD then went to Transylvania and placed himself
at the mercy of Hunyadi, the very person who had ordered his fathers
assassination. Hunyadi died of the plague at Belgrade on August 11,
1456. Immediately after that event, VLAD left Transylvania for
Wallachia. He defeated Vladislav II and on August 20 caught up with
the fleeing prince and killed him. VLAD then began his six year
reign, during which his reputation was established. Early in his
reign, probably in the spring of 1459, on Easter Sunday VLAD had the
Boyer families arrested. The older ones he had impaled outside the
palace and the city walls. He forced the rest to march from the
capital city of Tirgoviste to the town of Poenari, where over the
summer, in the most of humiliating of circumstances, they were
forced to build his new outpost overlooking the Arges River. This
chateau would later be identified as Castle Dracula.
Vlad's brutal manner of terrorizing his enemies and
the arbitrary manner in which he had people punished earned him the
nickname "Tepes" or "The Impaler," the common name by which he is
known today. VLAD was denounced by his contemporaries, and those in
the next several generations who wrote of him published numerous
tales of his cruelty. He was noted for the number of victims,
conservatively set at 40,000, in his brief six-year reign.
The beginning of the end of his brief reign can be traced to the
last months of 1461. For reasons not altogether clear, VLAD launched
a campaign to drive the Turks from the Danube River valley south and
east of Bucharest. In spite of early successes, when the Turks
finally mounted a response, VLAD found himself without allies and
was forced to retreat in the face of overwhelming numbers. At Castle
Dracula he was faced with overwhelming odds, his army having melted
away. He chose to survive by escaping through a secret tunnel and
then over the Carpathians into Transylvania. His wife, according to
local legend, committed suicide before the Turks overran the castle.

Dracula's end came at the hand of an assassin at some point toward
the end of December 1476 or early January 1477. The actual location
of VLAD Dracula's burial site is unknown, but a likely spot is the
church at the Snagov monastery, an isolated rural monastery built on
an island. Excavations there have proved inconclusive. A tomb near
the alter thought by many to be Vlad's resting place was empty when
opened in the early 1930's.
In the Romanian folklore, Dracula is not considered only as a
villain, opposite to the German, Turkish and Russian traditions. In
Wallachia, VLAD is honored in popular songs and legends, mainly in
the villages that round the Castle Dracula, the region where he is
most remembered. Although the distortions occurred in the passing
time, VLAD is really an important part in the reconstruction of the
past itself. The farmers are proud about the military acts of
Drácula, not caring about the ways he used. The fact that he fought
to ban the non-Christians seem to relieve him from the guilt of
impaling his own people.
Research: J. Gordon Melton; The Vampire Book, McNALLY, Raymnond
T.; FLORESCU, Radu: In search of Dracula -The History of Dracula
and vampires-


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This photo is the Real Prince Vlad Dracul the Impaler of Romania and known to impale his victims, later on he became known as Dracula.

Ang mga gumanap sa mga Dracula Movie..
Bela Lugosi - original Hollywod Dracula in the 1930's
Christopher Lee - 1960's to present and the Most Popular Dracula of all time, became Count Dooku in Star Wars and Saruman in Lord of the Rings
Peter Cushing - one time Dracula and the original Van Helsing, one time Darth Vader's General in the first Star Wars 1976 and the other Dracula stars which did not click.

Bela Lugosi



Christopher Lee



Peter Cushing

Oh meeen... I loooove Christopher Lee.... galing nya talaga I used to watch them with my mom...sa pilipinas pa kame... maliit pah ko...

talagang natatakot ako sa kanya...esp. pag yung mga scenes na tumatakbo yung karitela na may lamang kabaong ni draculaa.. inaykupooooo very effective na dracula

Hahaha... Try this one...

Actually it is Abraham Van Helsing, the famous vampire hunter of Bram Stoker’s classic novel, Dracula.

“Bram” was a shortened form of “Abraham,” a name Stoker shared with his father. That he selected this name for one of his leading characters suggests a degree of identification with that fictional person. “Abraham” also has biblical resonance, echoing the name of the patriarch and leader of the ancient Israelites.

As for the surname “Van Helsing,” a number of possibilities have been suggested. It may derive from Dr Hesselius, the fictional narrator of Sheridan Le Fanu’s famous vampire tale “Carmilla” (1872). Given Stoker’s familiarity with Shakespearean plays as manager of the Lyceum Theatre, the origin is possibly “Helsingor,” the Danish name for Hamlet’s famous castle. A third consideration is Van Helmont, an ancient alchemist mentioned briefly in T J Pettigrew’s On Superstitions Connected with the History and Nature of Medicine and Surgery (1844), one of Stoker’s known source-texts for Dracula.

Nice pics dude!

Christopher Lee.... I may say it.... He is a legend!

Christopher Lee...masasabi nating isa sa mga institusyon ng sining sa amerika

I have a face to face with Christopher Lee in Manila in 1978 at the Manila Hotel.
My goodness, I was so young and excited that I saw him by the poolside. He was there attending a movie festival and was invited by Imelda M. alongside with George Hamilton. There was a funny incident happened between Lee and a Pinay waitress of the poolside bar. When Lee asked a glass of water, the waitress cannot come near , for she knew who the guy was. Then Lee replied..."O, come on girl..come near me...I won't bite you"...and the guest at the poolside were all amazed and giggling.

wowwww...kelot..swerte mo naman

OO kaya favorite ko siya lao na pag bad guy siya...pero pag lumalabas siya ng good guy, di ko ma-take...kasi na-stereo type na siyang Vampira!!

OT: pero type ko din sya as bad guy sa LOTR as Saruman...

korek

Ganun.. sya pala ang gumanap dun.. Cool!

Dracula

Madaming Dracula sa Quezon City sa Cubao, nakatambay kapag gabi, naghihintay ng masisipsip na sariwang dugo.

Whie blood nga lang at mga lalaki lang, mwa ha ha ha

ay mali, vampira pala ang mga yon,

bading e, mwa ha ha ha ha ( joke lang po mga baklesh )