Dracula

I don't believe in vampire

QUOTE (Aling Pooky @ Aug 21 2004, 07:20 AM)

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 )

Ngek!

QUOTE (PuppyLove>>>>@ @ Aug 21 2004, 11:09 PM)

I don't believe in vampire

Why naman?

From the movie Dracula....

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im open to the idea that there could be a vampire.

QUOTE (Quentin @ Aug 26 2004, 03:35 PM)

im open to the idea that there could be a vampire.

Thats the spirit! tambayan/thmbup.gif

Of course mayroon naman talagang Vampire at mayroon ding Dracula... Nasa history si Dracula pero mas kilala sya sa pangalang Prince Vlad III Dracula. He was the prince of Walachia which at that time was ruled by Hungary.

Young Dracula

Dracula was born in November or December of 1431. His given name was Vlad. He had an older brother, Mircea, and a younger brother, Radu the Handsome. Their mother may have been a Moldavian princess or a Tranyslvanian noble. It is said that she educated Dracula in his early years. Later he was trained for knighthood by an old boyar who had fought the Turks.

Dracula's father was not content to remain a mere governor forever. During his years in Transyvlania, he gathered supporters for his plan to seize Walachia's throne from its current occupant, a Danesti prince named Alexandru I. In late 1436 or early 1437 Vlad Dracul killed Alexandru and became Prince Vlad II.

Vlad was a vassal of Hungary and also had to pay tribute to Hungary's enemy, Turkey. In 1442 Turkey invaded Transylvania. Vlad tried to stay neutral, but Hungary's rulers blamed him and drove him and his family out of Walachia. A Hungarian general, Janos Hunyadi (who may have been the illegitimate son of Emperor Sigismund) made a Danesti named Basarab II the prince of Walachia.

The following year Vlad regained the throne with the help of the sultan of Turkey. In 1444 he sent his two younger sons to Turkey to prove his loyalty. Dracula was about 13. He spent the next four years in Adrianople, Turkey as a hostage.

In 1444 Hungary went to war with Turkey and demanded that Vlad join the crusade. As a member of the Order of the Dragon, Vlad was sworn to obey this summons. But he didn't want to anger the Turks, so he sent his eldest son, Mircea, in his place. The Christian army was demolished at the Battle of Varna, and Vlad and Mircea blamed Janos Hunyadi.

In 1447 Vlad and Mircea were murdered. Mircea was killed by the boyars and merchants of the Walachian city Tirgoviste. There are different stories about how he died - he may have been tortured and burned, or buried alive. Apparently his father died at the same time. Some say that the assassinations were organized by Hunyadi.

Since Vlad and Mircea were dead, and Dracula and Radu were still in Turkey, Hunyadi was able to put a member of the Danesti clan, Vladislav II, on the Walachian throne. The Turks didn't like having a Hungarian puppet in charge of Walachia, so in 1448 they freed Dracula and gave him an army. He was seventeen years old.

It seems that Dracula's little brother Radu chose to remain in Turkey. He had grown up there, and apparently remained loyal to the sultan.

VLADIMIR ata real name niya.

QUOTE (Quentin @ Aug 27 2004, 06:46 AM)

VLADIMIR ata real name niya.

Maybe for others... But it is really Vlad.

dati curious ako dun.. gusto ko makilala. haha!

The name was Vlad the Impaler... tambayan/033102bigangry_1_prv.gif

Vlad Dracul was not a vampire but as SADISTIC MANIAC who kills people and his enemies for fun and satisfaction...with his own way of torture, execution in brutal means.. tambayan/033102bigscream_1_prv.gif

Thats my man! tambayan/thmbup.gif

This is one sexy vampire.... VAMPIRELLA....

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QUOTE (M&M @ Aug 18 2004, 01:37 AM)

back to topic, hindi totoo iyan..mga resulta lang iyan ng mga may weirdong kaisipan

Yes, there was a real Dracula, and he was a true prince of darkness. He was Prince Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad Tepes, meaning "Vlad the Impaler." The Turks called him Kaziglu Bey, or "the Impaler Prince." He was the prince of Walachia, but, as legend suggests, he was born in Transylvania, which at that time was ruled by Hungary.

According to legend, Walachia was founded in 1290 by a Transylvanian named Radu Negru, or Rudolph the Black. Dracula's grandfather, Prince Mircea the Old, reigned from 1386 to 1418. He fought to keep Walachia independent from the Turks but was forced to pay tribute to them. He and his descendants continued to rule Walachia, but under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey).

The throne of Walachia was not necessarily passed from father to son. The prince was elected by the country's boyars, or land-owning nobles. This caused fighting among family members, assassinations, and other unpleasantness. Eventually the royal House of Basarab was split into two factions -- Mircea's descendants, and the descendants of another prince named Dan II. Dan's descendants were called the Danesti.

Mircea had an illegitimate son, Vlad, born around 1390. He grew up in the court of King Sigismund of Hungary, first probably as a hostage and later as a page. Sigismund, who became the Holy Roman Emperor in 1410, founded a secret fraternal order of knights called the Order of the Dragon to uphold Catholicism and fight Turkey. Vlad was admitted to the Order, probably in 1431. The boyars of Walachia started to call him Dracul, meaning "dragon." Vlad's second son would be known as Dracula, or "son of the dragon." Dracul also meant "devil." So some of Dracula's enemies called him "son of the devil."

Sigismund made Vlad the military governor of Transylvania, a post he held from 1431 to 1435. During that time he lived in the town of Sighisoara or Schassburg. You can still visit the citadel there and even the house where Vlad's son Dracula was born. Today there's a restaurant on the second floor. There's also a mural in the house that may depict Vlad Dracul.

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Tama po si E-heads... he existed... nag-evolve lang yung sotry kasi pinasa sa iba't ibang generations thru tongue