Vampires - Myth Or Reality? Part 7

Dracula ruled the southern Romania. He was socontext may be the main reason why Dracula
brutal and became a mass murderer of hisbecame associated with the practice of
enemies. He loved Transylvania and favored hisvampirism. During the century of violence, both
homeland. In 1976, Nicolae Ceausesco, a Romanianlived violent lifestyles.
dictator, issued a portrait of Dracula in aLooking at the life and history of Dracula, he was
commemorative postage stamp as a nationalsimply a man unfortunately connected with the
hero. He shared Dracula's character traits anddevil because of his ancestral blood ties with the
rationalized his cruelties while revolutionariesSzekelys and the Berserkers. The Szekelys came
portrayed him as a vampire literally caricaturedfrom the generation of Scythian witches who
with fangs. Dracula in reality was an authenticmated with the devils. The Berserkers came
Wallachian prince of the 15th century. Thefrom the Ugric tribes in Iceland. Dracula was a
Byzantine, Germans, Turkish, and Slavonicmodel of a dragon and a devil in many ways. The
documents as well as olden times horror storiespresentation of the death, immortality, and the
presented him as a demented cruel ruler becausesacred differences clearly explained the responses
of the amount of blood he spilled from infideland perceptions of the characters in the novel.
Turks. However, he could be a hero among theThe mortal's perceived their indifference to the
Germans, Hungarians, Romanians, and otherphysical and spiritual sacred qualities of the
Christians of his time. He gained the reputation ofvampire as a threat and highly potential risks to
the Impaler because his favorite sentencinglife. Dracula was a model of the possibility for
methods were all kinds of physical and mentalhuman to beastlike transformation when humanity
torture.don't take their faith in God seriously. The
His methods could easily level him with Jack thefoundation of religious faith was not solid during
Ripper based from the number of victims andthe 19th century and even before that period.
refinement of imposed cruelty. His deeds receivedThe people were just not prepared to face their
wide publication. In most instances, his potentialspiritual crisis and turn to traditional religious beliefs.
victims came to know his practices and cruelty.The characters on Dracula drew themselves to
The name of Dracula's father was Dracul with theoccult practices and theories in an effort to
same given name as Vlad. There were multiplereestablish and recreate their own values and
variations of the names Dracul and Dracula acrosssacred brands based on their existing economic,
different languages such as Dracole, Draculya,political, and social conditions. The society
Tracol, Draculios, and Dracula. The Dracul namesuccessfully reestablished the old world of
meant dragon and evil. In 1431, Dracul receivedvampires as threat to society and successfully
the Order of the Dragon dedicated to fight Turkstaged several vampire accounts or cases. The
infidels by Sigismund, a holy Roman emperor. Thesociety struggled with the ontological truths and
sign of the dragon made the peasants think hemystery of the context of vampirism. In the end,
was in alliance with the devil. The meaning of thethey overcame their ordeal through faith even
name Dracula was the son of the dragon or devil.though vampirism was also in a way a form of
The words dragon and devil in the Romanianhistorically structured sacredness.