Vlad the Impaler Dracul Jon L
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Vlad The Impaler Not a myth, the real Dracula. Jon Lundh, Class: EEDAT15, School: Fria Läroverken
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Vlad The ImpalerNot a myth, the real Dracula.
Jon Lundh, Class: EEDAT15, School: Fria Läroverken
What do you mean with “real Dracula”?His name was Vlad III Dracul and he was in fact the real Dracula. But he was not like the Dracula you have read about in books, he was worse and much more EVIL.
Dracul means dragon in romanian and is also known as devil.
He was later dubbed as Vlad the Impaler.
What do you mean he was evil?Yeah, the evil part. Vlad III Dracul was the prince of Wallachia (southern Romania) and was a mental and brutal maniac that loved to punish people in the most twisted and awful ways that you can imagine. It began with that Vlad wanted revenge for the murder of his father and brother.
Creepy fact: Vlads brother got his eyes gouged out and was buried alive.
How did he punish people?Well, he liked to make people get skinned, boiled, blind, strangled, hanged, burned, roasted, chopped, shredded, spiked on poles, buried alive and his favorite, cutting off people’s heads and put them on poles. He also liked to cut off people’s genitals and make them eat it.
Here is a German pamphlet from 1521 with examples:“He roasted children, whom he fed to their mothers. And (he) cut off the breasts of women, and forced their husbands to eat them. After that, he had them all impaled.”
And here is a poem from Gregory Christiano about Vlad the Impaler:
“Vlad Die Tepes, with blood-soaked fist,
Prince of Wallachia, in evil did persist.
Transylvanian roots entailed an image knave,
His Order of the Dragon sent many to their grave.”
Death?It is known that he was assassinated. None is sure of what happened or when. He was buried, possibly in a monastery he built.
His head was sent to Istanbul where it was put on a pike and displayed.
Tasted his own medicine.
The VampireThe Dracula vampire book was written by Bram Stoker and was inspired by Vlad III Dracul and his awful acts. Stoker also liked the Transylvanian culture.
In Transylvania they believed that dead people could move and leave from the grave, so they put the dead in coffins and put a pole through the heart. Like the vampire in Stokers book.
