Hey I like to know every thing there is to know about Dracula is he true? does he still haunt the mansion? is he really prince of darkness?

I like know everything

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Vlad was seen as very sadistic by many because of the way he would stake insects and small animals casually much in the manner that some might doodle designs with a pen on a scrap of paper, that he was preoccupied with causing and studying death habitually.

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The History Channel ran a newer show about Vlads' castle recently....Bram Stokers' Dracula is a combination of two historic figures , one of course is "Vlad the Impaler" the other is "Countess Elizabeth Bathory" ....B



from Wiki:


Čachtice Castle

Random trivial fact of the Countess Bathory: A vague representation of her is in Diablo 2!

In addition to Vlad the Impaler:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_Dracula
http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm

Dracula doesnt exist, he's just a fictional character of Bram Stoker's novel. I dont remember if Stoker really specified the location of the castle that took place in his novel. If you google around, you'll find that Vlad the Impaler's (Vlad III Dracula) castle is Bran Castle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bran_Castle
http://www.draculascastle.com/html/poenari.html

Okay but am little of track here... What about castle??? There has be prince of dark right..? like a blood hunter??

Two articles I wrote that will be of interest to you:

The Bloody Countess

Dracula's Castle

They should help direct you to some good historical facts.

Chris

Thanks Mate now am on track here

Hey no problem at all. There's a good link the Dracula's Castle article at the bottom to a woman who studies Dracula lore. Her page is well worth checking out too.

cheers!
Chris

Wow i know i cheek'd it out its amazing tyy alot

Google.

You're most welcome

Chris

yeah dracula is not real

but there was a dude name vlad they called him vlad the Impaler

cause after doing battles and stuff like that he would stab people with a stake

thn take the stake and stick it into the ground

and have lunch or dinner next to a group of people slowly dieing on the stake

Wow scary

heard a story he would drop coins in a public place and hide behind corners and bushes with some guards and watch to see if anyone picked them up. if so, he'd stake em (or some other gross torture/death)
story went, ppl there were so scared, they were honest and nobody would pick up even coins lying there on the road...
true? extreme times call for extreme measures or of the cruel he was one of the best at it? dunno, just something I heard.
cruelty and stupidity seem limitless sometimes, doesn't matter race creed or status

There is a Castle in Europe that people say Dracula lives in but since his not real... I dont know how its possible ?

I think you are confused by what they are saying here. The character "Dracula" is fictional. Vlad the Impaler was in fact real. The castle was his.

There' a good book if you can find it that explains about Vlad Dracul, his life, deeds, myths and historical facts. It's called 'In search of Dracula' by Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu. It should help you to decipher the the truth about him.

The story of Dracula was based on Vlad the Impaler - he was real, and he lived in the castle. He would kill people in the name of God, by setting their bodies atop spikes and letting their body weight slowly impale them. It was said he also drank their blood. And as previous mentioned, Elizabeth Báthory also provided inspiration for Bram Stoker - she apparently indulged in things like (highlight if you wanna know, a bit yuck) putting young girls in cages full of spikes, then having someone poke through the cage with a hot rod, causing the girl inside to flail about and stab herself repeatedly on the spikes and Elizabeth lay under it, bathing. These two people were simply what inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula - they existed, the character of Dracula did not. When people refer to 'the real life Dracula,' they in fact mean Vlad.

SOme things that are often overlooked when speaking of Vlad the Impaler.

(1) He spent years in a Turkish prison. I imagine that will screw up any adolescent.

(2) His father was a member of "The Order of the Dragon", a distibuished group of soldiers/knights/lords sworn to protect Christian Europe from Muslim nations (like the Ottoman empire). The name Dracul comes from this Order (Dracul = Dragon).

(3) WHile he was reknowned as a sadistic man, he was also involved in a ridiculous number of plots and assassination attempts against him, mostly by the landowners of Romania called the Boyars.

(4) He beat the socks off the Turks when they tried to invade Eastern Europe. THe impaling of bodies was done to show the Turks that any foriegn invader will be met with the most extreme of punishments. It is believed that he learned this very technique while imprisoned by the Turks.

One of the best stories I remember about Vlad is that when the Turkish uh..king?...prince?...sent emissaries to treat with Vlad and they refused to remove their turbans when requested, he had the turbans nailed to their foreheads. GOtta love Vlad, that whacky scamp!

Okay okay im on track now.

No such thing as Dracula but there is Vlad who pretty much does things like Dracula.

Also if he was so evil and horrible why did'n't they arrest him?

If they couldn't kill him, and they lived in fear of him, AND he was the ruler of the land.... exactly who do you think would offer to go in and try to arrest him? Right or wrong, he was the ruler, and his army was doomed to serve him.

that's true..when he ruled valahia none had the guts to insubordinate him..but the turks, that really wanted to conquer valahia and the other romanian countries.vlad tepes was sadic indeed ,but in that time this was a necesary thing in order to protect his people and country..altghough he overdid it many times ..he was a great strategist and had a cruel ending being betrade by his own brother, radu, who wanted the crown of valahia

oh..and his castle is to be sold because romanians are too incapable to keep it,and i am sorry to say this because i am a romanian but bran(the castle's name)should be in our state patrimony..also there is another castle in the mountains, a ruination now that is said to be his,but no ghost in there

One of the people that live'd in the town should of went to a Country. That would attack Vlad and kill him

nonsense...the people loved and feared him both, he was giving them the protection they needed from turks(which when invading they used to kill,steal,rape all this representing at least of the bad they could have done)so for us, romanians, he is more a hero than a cool blooded killer

good artcle ....too bad its monday! .....B

That's a very good piont to make. Vlad is still revered as a saviour of the country.