Dracula was a real vampire or he was just a king of romania?

Question

i am confused about dracula. is there was any evidence that dracula was vampire or he was just related as a vampire coz he killed 1 kakh turks...

Answer 1

Other answers are right and so are you. Vlad the impaler was the king of romania tht gained his during a war with Turkey. He wasnt a real vampire but dabbled in the back arts and regularly drank blood in form of ritual sacrifice.

Answer 2

Dracula was a king of Romania,he impaled his enemies and drank their blood.

Dracula was his nickname

Answer 3

Hes vlad the impaler but im pretty sure it was transylvania not romania

Answer 4

Dracula was Vlad the Impaler

Answer 5

Is there such a thing as a "real" vampire? I  thought all vampires were fakes and wannabes

Answer 6

No. Bram Stoker used a real person for his book Dracula.. Basing some truth in his fiction. Vlad was a knight and king of the Dracul and ruled Romania. I believe his real name was Vladamir Tempish.

Answer 7

those were just rumors about him drinking blood. He was revengful and cruel.

"Dracula" in Romanian means literally, son of the Dragon. Vladislavs "Tepes" Dracula was born in 1431- the year Joan of Arc was burned at the stake- in Sighisoara, Romania, in a modest stone house that still stands today. His father and namesake Vlad Dracul was the governor of Transylvania, a Knight of the Order of the Dragon, from which he took the name "Dracul." The Order of the Dragon was a Catholic chivalric order similar to the Knights Hospitaller, whose mission was defending Christianity against the Turks.

Vlad quickly became known for his swift and brutal punishments, meted out even for minor crimes. His favorite punishment for lawbreakers was impalement, but he also employed burning, dismemberment, and other cruelties. He loathed the dishonest, beggars, and people who could not or would not work. On one infamous occasion, he sent out an invitation to the beggars of Wallachia to attend a great feast. When his guests arrived and were seated, he ordered the doors locked, and building was then burned to the ground, leaving no survivors. In Germany, pamphlets describing his atrocities began to circulate, along with rumors of blood drinking and worse.

http://www.history.com/media.do?id=lostw...

And don't miss The Real Dracula on Monday July 28 10:00 on the History channel

Answer 8

That depends, are you speaking of Vlad Dracula, or Count Dracula?

Vlad Dracula was a noble in Romania, eventually taking a post of power. He was a hideous barbarian, impaling people and watching them die for hours, cutting off the noses of dead soldiers and sending them to other leaders for intimidation, etc. But he never showed any signs of being a vampire. He never drank blood, he was not impartial to sunlight. He was just a nobleman.

Count Dracula, on the other hand, is widely accepted to be a vampire. He doesn't deny it himself. Stoker had always been fascinated with vampires, and had been meaning to write a novel about them for some time. In his spare time, he studied history and mythology of older cultures that spoke of vampires. The Count was originally going to be named Count Vampir, when Stoker stumbled across the story of Vlad Dracula, and took the name. He didn't take the story of Vlad, he just took the name for it's sound (he described the name in his journal, saying it "smacks of evil.") and its connotations of evil.

Answer 9

Dracula wasn't a real vampire but there are real vampires out there.

Answer 10

just a king of Romania....

Answer 11

Vlad the Impaler was a Transylvania King.

In battle he would impale his enemies on a spear, then he would catch their blood in a glass as they slid down. He would then drink the blood of his enemies.

Answer 12

Vlad the Impaler was a Prince -- not a King -- of Wallachia -- not Romania whose father and brother were killed by his own nobles.  His roughly eight years in power were marked by extreme savagery according to sources, not just towards the Turks but towards his own subjects, especially those involved in the murder of his family.  Incidently, while his last known descendent died at the start of the nineteenth century, Radu Florescu, the well-known Dracula scholar, is the direct descendent of one of those enemies and claims his family may be under a curse from the old man.

The sad truth is, everything except Mr. Florescu's account comes from pamphlets issued in Germany where the Teutonic Knights were popular.  Not only were they unpopular in Wallachia and Transylvania, but Eisenstein's great film Aleksandr Nevsky paints them as black villains -- with some justification.  We can reasonably assume there was some exaggeration in traditional accounts, though how much is questionable.

There is nevertheless no direct evidence linking him with Vampires, however if he were one one might not expect it.

Answer 13

Vlad the Impaler (the inspiration of Dracula) was a notorious ruler of Romania who did some very unique intimidation inducing acts.  One of the more notable was during large dinner parties at his castle, with rival rulers in attendance, he drank the blood of another rival who he had slain in battle for all others to see.  As far as any science shows, vampires are completely mythological, but the ability to play on people's fears is alive and well.

Answer 14

Dracula was based off of the man Vlad the Impaler.