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Dracula - Vlad the Impaler

 

This is the REAL-LIFE story of Vlad The Impaler - a brave and renowned Prince of Wallachia in Romania who apart from his enjoyment of warfare against the Turks enjoyed rather too much torturing and cruelly using his enemies and peasants alike. His favourite torture was slow death by impaling his victims outdoors on stakes - dozens or even hundreds at a time.

You will also find information on Princess Eleonore von Schwarzenberg The VAMPIRE PRINCESS and other noted Vampires and Medieval Serial merders.
Dracula was written by Bram Stoker who drew on Prince Vlad's nastier side.Prince Vlad held the Order of Dracul (Dracul means Dragon) and his seal has a dragon impressed on it.
This website also has much information on Vampires and even a link to a modern-day vampire's blog !

Vlad The Impaler 

Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" (that is, ', in Romanian; also known as Vlad Dracula or simply Dracula, in Romanian Dr?culea'; 1431 ? December 1476), was a Wallachian (southern Romania) voivode. His three reigns were in 1448, 1456?1462, and 1476. Vlad the Impaler is known for the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign. In the English-speaking world, Vlad III is best known for (possibly) inspiring the name of the eponymous vampire in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.Dracula

As prince, Vlad maintained an independent policy in relation to the Ottoman Empire[http://www.romaniatourism.com/dracula.html Count Dracula's Legend] and a defender of Wallachia against Ottoman expansionism.

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Eleonore von Schwarzenberg in the Medieval Town of Krumau in Bohemia

For the first time, researchers have found proof that the stories of vampires spread in Europe in first half of the XVIIIe century had a real basis.

Yes that's right there really WERE VAMPIRES !

This is about Princess Eleonore von Schwarzenberg (1682-1741)
She was sensitive to daylight and only left her castle at night - secretly ...

During an inquiry into a possible ancestor of Dracula. In the small medieval city of Krumau, in Bohemia, a team made up archaeologists, historians and medical examiners discovered and examined three corpses buried in a South-Western direction, and not East-West, as is normal in Christian burials in that region.There were a total of 15 skeletons found.

Parts of three skeletons were weighed down by stones, the head of the one of them was separated from the trunk and lies between the legs, a stone in the mouth, the hands are bound by a rosary. This was the traditional way to dispose of Vampires in Central Europe.
In the 18th Century there was a HUGE Vampire hunt going on throughout Europe and it was from this that our current belief in Vampires exists.
People throughout Germany,Austria and Cezchoslvakia even went as far as digging up people from graveyards to check if they were vampires.
If they looked healthy and not decomposed or if the fingernails and hair had grown,this was taken as a sign that the poor unfortunate was a vampire and they were burned on a bonfire in the graveyard.
Recent research shows that post mortem changes in bodies show these changes naturally and gases produced in the body can make the body move - the nails and hair look like they are growing but actually its the skin that is shrinking.
This was listed in Magia posthuma, a treaty on the vampires published little after 1700.
This was of course the traditional way of binding the corpse of a Vampire so that it could not rise from the Grave.
Additionaly each body had been pierced with a wooden stake - as was the traditional method of preventing a vampire from rising to suck the blood of the living.

Following the discover of the tomb of the Princess was is the beginning of an amazing Historical and Forensic investigation, which took scientists to the files in the Library of the castle.

After extesive reearch, Rainer Köppl, who is a specialist in the history of the media and the vampires, discovered there the existence of a mysterious female figure, Eleonore von Schwarzenberg.

Could She have been the original of the female vampire that Bram Stoker placed in the first chapter of his Dracula, before removing these first pages at the time of the publication of the book in London in 1897? (Not in the final published editions ..)Which raises the question of why Stoker removed an excellent character from his book - or was it fear of retribution from her family ?

Remains of the Princess Eleonore von Schwarzenberg of Krumau, in any case, make quite worrying discoveries that include very unusual deaths and medical experiments,a mysterious disease, and other stange discoveries in the higher realms of the nobility of Bohemia.
Eleonore was very ill in the latter part of her life and she was rich - very rich.
She was also a heavy smoker ! (tobacco at that time was used as a medicine and was incredibly expensive).
However in an effort to be cured of her ailment she invited the most famous Alchemists and Occultists of the time to her Castle.
They held regular Occult and Spiritualist seances and eventually in an effort to cure her barrenness, she was advised to drink the milk of Wolves.
She had built a Wolf Kennel and the Wolves were milked daily for her.
She had the beautiful Baroque Theatre of Krumau built and Krumau became a real centre of learning with meeting of almost every leading light in the Sciences and Arts.
The disaster struck. In 1732 Prince Adam Franz Karl Eusebius of Schwarzenburg was accidentally shot while hunting with the Emporer Karl VI. Eleonore devoted herself to building up the industry and economy of the region with mines,glassworks,wood and breweries.
Presumably the wolves howling at night upset the villagers.She still drank the Wolf milk every day believing it would make her fertile.
Her death is a mystery and not recorded but her autopsy showed she actually died of cervical cancer.
But she still had a stake through her heart when she was recently uncovered.
Sadly she was mutilated after death with the stake and removal of her head ... She was buried in a cement cage. It remains to be seen. - but WHY was her head cut off - was it just the pack of wolves she kept or was there a darker, sinister explanation ?

Here are pictures from the Tomb.....

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Bram Stoker 

The Irishman who Made Dracula Famous ! (Or Infamous !!)

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 ? 20 April 1912) was an Irish writer of novels and short stories, who is best known today for his 1897 horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known for being the personal assistant of the actor Sir Henry Irving and the business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.

Dracula at a Glance 

Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.

Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and repressed sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the n...

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Vampire Movies 

==History==

The earliest cinematic vampires in such films as The Vampire (1913), directed by Robert G. Vignola, were in reality 'vamps' or femme fatales deriving inspiration from a poem by Rudyard Kipling called "The Vampire", composed in 1897. This poem was written as kind of commentary on a painting of a female vampire by Philip Burne-Jones exhibited in the same year. Lyrics from Kipling's poem: A fool there was . . . , describing a seduced man, were used as the title of the film A Fool There Was (1915) starring Theda Bara as the 'vamp' in question and the poem was used in the publicity for the film. Per the Oxford English Dictionary, vamp is originally English, used first by G. K. Chesterton, but popularized in the American silent film The Vamp, starring Enid Bennett

A genuine supernatural vampire features in the landmark Nosferatu (1922 Germany, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau). This was an unlicensed version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, based so closely on the novel that the estate sued and won, with all copies ordered to be destroyed. It would be painstakingly restored in 1994 by a team of European scholars from the five surviving prints that had escaped destruction.

The next classic treatment of the vampire legend was in Universal's Dracula (1931) starring Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula.

Five years after the release of the film, Universal released Draculas Daughter (1936), a direct sequel that starts immediately after the end of the first film. A second sequel, Son of Dracula, starring Lon Chaney, Jr. followed in 1943. Despite his apparent death in the 1931 film, the Count returned to life in three more Universal films of the mid-1940s: House of Frankenstein (1944), House of Dracula (1945) both starring John Carradine and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). While Lugosi had played a vampire in two other movies during the 1930s and 40s, it was only in this final film that he played Count Dracula onscreen for the second (and last) time.

A link between the Universal tradition and the later Hammer style is the 1957 Mexican movie El Vampiro that actually showed the vampire fangs (Lugosi did not) and introduced other now common cliches (like the backwards spelling of the name as a vampire's way to hide its identity).

Dracula was reincarnated for a new generation in the celebrated Hammer Horror series of films, starring Christopher Lee as the Count. The first of these films Dracula (1958) was followed by seven sequels. Lee returned as Dracula in all but two of these.

A more faithful adaptation of Stoker's novel appeared as Bram Stokers Dracula (1992) directed by Francis Ford Coppola though also identifying Count Dracula with the notorious medieval Balkan ruler Vlad the ImpalerWayne Bartlett and Flavia Idriceanu (2005) Legends of Blood: The Vampire in History and Myth: 42.

Category: Image - :Vampire lovers cap.jpg|249px|thumb|Ingrid Pitt gets her teeth into Madeleine Smith in The Vampire Lovers

A distinct sub-genre of vampire films, ultimately inspired by Le Fanus Carmilla explored the topic of the lesbian vampire. The first of these was Blood and Roses (1960) by Roger Vadim. More explicit lesbian content was provided in Hammer Studios Karnstein trilogy. The first of these, The Vampire Lovers, (1970), starring Ingrid Pitt and Madeleine Smith, was a relatively straightforward re-telling of LeFanu's novella, but with more overt violence and sexuality.

Later films in this sub-genre such as Vampyres (1974) became even more explicit in their depiction of sex, nudity and violence.

Beginning with the absurd Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) the vampire film has often been the subject of comedy. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) by Academy Award winner Roman Polanski was a notable parody of the genre. Other comedic treatments, of variable quality, include Old Dracula (1974) featuring David Niven as a lovelorn Dracula, Love at First Bite (1979 USA) featuring George Hamilton and Category: Dracula: Dead and Loving It - (1995 USA, directed by Mel Brooks) with Canadian Leslie Nielsen giving it a comic twist.

Another development in some vampire films has been a change from supernatural horror to science fictional explanations of vampirism. The Last Man on Earth (Italy 1964, directed by Ubaldo Ragona) and The Omega Man (1971 USA, directed by Boris Sagal), both based on Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend, are two examples. Vampirism is explained as a kind of virus in David Cronenberg's Rabid (1976 Canada) and Red-Blooded American Girl (1990 Canada, directed by David Blyth).

Race has been another theme, as exemplified by the blaxploitation picture Blacula (1972) and several sequels.

Since the time of Bela Lugosi's Dracula (1931) the vampire, male or female, has usually been portrayed as an alluring sex symbol. Christopher Lee, Delphine Seyrig, Frank Langella, and Lauren Hutton are just a few examples of actors who brought great sex-appeal into their portrayal of the vampire. Latterly the implicit sexual themes of vampire film have become much more overt, culminating in such films as Gayracula (1983) and The Vampire of Budapest, (1995), two pornographic all-male vampire movies, and Lust For Dracula (2005), a pornographic all-lesbian adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic.

There is, however, a very small sub-genre, pioneered in Murnau's seminal Nosferatu (1922) in which the portrayal of the vampire is similar to the hideous creature of European folklore. Max Schrek's disturbing portrayal of this role in Murnau's film was copied by Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's remake Category: Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht - (1979). In Shadow of the Vampire (2000, directed by E. Elias Merhige), Willem Dafoe plays Max Schrek, himself, though portrayed here as an actual vampire. Dafoe's character is the ugly, disgusting creature of the original Nosferatu. Stephen King's Salem's Lot (1979), notably depicts vampires as terrifying, simple-minded creatures, without erotism, and with the only desire to feed on the blood of others. This type of vampire is also featured in the film 30 Days of Night.

A major character in most vampire films is the vampire hunter, of which Stokers Abraham Van Helsing is a prototype. However, killing vampires has changed. Where Van Helsing relied on a stake through the heart, in Vampires 1998 USA, directed by John Carpenter, Jack Crow (James Woods) has a heavily-armed squad of vampire hunters, and in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992 USA, directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui), writer Joss Whedon (who created TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and spinoff Angel) attached The Slayer, Buffy Summers (Kristy Swanson in the film, Sarah Michelle Gellar in the TV series), to a network of Watchers and mystically endowed her with superhuman powers.

Why are we fascinated by Dracula 

After all he was a really unpleasant Prince

I'd say its the fascination with the darker side of sex.
The bitng,the drawing of blood somehow simulates extreme passion to some people.. and there are many people even today who say they are vampires and have even drunk blood live on tv.
The act of biting itself is really the ultimate invasion of another persons body and moviemakers have let it rip (so to say !)
Many of the movies made have minor simulated sex and Hammer Films in particular was noted for its 60's films featuring a host of exceptionally well-endowed beauties heaving away at their scantily clad bosoms while Dracula nibbled hungrily at their necks. Comics and magazines feature the dark side heavily just pre-halloween and most cities have troupes of scantily-clad young ladies doing things on the streets they wouldn't dream of doing otherwise. Vampirism seems to loosen the inhibitions and I'm sure a university somewhere would like to pay me to explore the subject in some depth !
So we have a scary subject that tittilates and explores not only peoples fears but also their secret desires ... interesting!

Van Helsing 

A very exciting Vampire-Hunter movie starring Hugh Jackman as Gabriel Von Helsing (complete with crossbow) and Kate Beckinsale.
Great Flying Vampire sequences and genuine thriller.
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Real edge-of-your-seat stuff.
Its a movie you will watch again and again.
It is not a rehash of the traditional story but more of an action movie and I really liked it .

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Books on Vampires 

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

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No Rest for the Wicked (The Immortals After Dark, Book 2) by Kresley Cole

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