Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Legend of Count Dracula

We heard the name "Dracula" and we have seen in many films in the form of a creature merciless that is not exhausted, which sits in his castle and lives to drink the blood of humans as sleeping in his coffin during the day and shows at night, breaks the necks of his victims has become a demon scary or bat night. What is the reality of that myth? Does it have roots in reality?

 Drakul Darcul means dragon in Romanian Darcula The word it means I'm the dragon, it is the son of the dragon? In fact the rule of a man named Vlad Vlad Emirate in the territory of Romania, the current so-called "Valakhia" in the mid-fifteenth century when he inherited power from his father, nicknamed the Dragon and on this basis called the Son of the Dragon, or "Dracula" and precedes the word "Dracula" word "formed" to denote as a prince. Well Vlad is another title called "Impaler" Impaler he was known for wrath and brutality in the torture of its prisoners with little history that first invented the method of murder, torture Balkhazouk, and pile the words of the shaft beats in the back of the victim to come out of his neck is the way in which it is famous "Dracula , "and also alleged that he was cut off pieces of his victims and drank their blood and was also said to have killed between 40,000 to 100,000, born Dracula in 1462 and died in 1476 at the hands of Ottoman Turks, who were to meet with them in a number of battles, as commented severed head on spearhead in Constantinople (Istanbul today).

 1456-1462: Is the golden age of Dracula, who took over the reins of power and it is said to have killed thousands in that period, 0.1456: Dracula's face with the armies of occupation with the help of Hungary and was able to recover his throne .1462: could "Rhoda," the younger brother of Dracula to seize power by helping him received from the Turks expelled Dracula out of the country where he spent 12 years in Hungary and married there the ruling family of the Magyar and is said to have married a sister of the King

1474-1475: Die "Rhoda" and the Turks ruled their grip on the country

1475: Dracula composing the army to restore their land and to work out

1476: The Sultan Turkish invasion again in the battle of the latter with Dracula, he meets Dracula was killed and said that he was killed by one of his followers, who shall Sultan of Turkey to suspend his head on the shaft of the people know that he was killed, in Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire, and buried his body in the town of Snagov near Bucharest (the capital of Romania today) but it had not been found so far

1931: Team went out to explore the body of Dracula, but did not find, but skeletal remains of an animal that was not the coffin is buried exists

 In 1897 known director of a small theater and feature an Irish name "Bram Stoker's" on "Vlad" through the history book, as well as Search "Bram Stoker" in the legends of ancient revolve around rituals of vampires, and so the foundations for his novel, which carried the first name "who does not die "in the first version (brought in after the name of Dracula), after adding new features on the characters and monsters from the vampires, such as weakness when exposed to the sun or vulnerable to the cross and holy water, he chose to" Bram "his novel a distinctive place in the history of myth, a province Transylvania Aalromagnh and where there are actually known as Castle Vlad Dracula. Spread the novel in the West and in the world and met with wide acclaim to the point that many of the plays and Hollywood films inspired by them and from the film Darcula 1992. So the idea of ​​vampires is just a vision of the author of "Bram" with that have roots earlier in the ritual of some peoples as they claim that drinking the blood prolong life and satisfy their gods hungry for blood, but why link the idea with Dracula back to his passion for killing, as was his castle raises fear to the extent that the Sultan Turkey said once that Dracula kill people and put them in a pile in the road to the castle. In the period of his imprisonment, he was collecting birds, mice, and the killing and torture.

Dracula: a national hero in Romania!

Seen the people of Romania to Prince Vlad or Dracula as a national hero for his containment of the Turkish invasion of Europe as the rule between 1456, 1462 and they say that he was dealing brutally with the corrupt officials and thieves, especially invaders occupiers. According to some historical documents that Dracula gave the peasants of his district 16 mountain after Khalsou of the Ottoman troops besieged his castle. One story says that Vlad left once when a gold cup wells for which people drink because he knows he will not dare to steal one. The thief and the death is amputation or death at the stake. It has been said that he was taking from the rich and gives to the poor. Was a hero in their eyes. One historian says that the Romans: "Vlad became a hero after the country was beset by corruption and crime. During the six years of his reign is not known definitively to the crime of tolerance and restored the confidence of traders and foreign travelers subsequently recovered the country

Most people did not know what the relationship between the Roman prince, who knew him as a hero and the historical and the myth of a vampire only after 1992, while the foreigners only know the vampire Dracula, that character that appeared in Bram Stoker's novel.

Castle Dracula archaeological

Dracula's Castle is located in Transylvania on a hilltop castle and an annual shrine where thousands of tourists watch the secret pathways and the related tales of being the legendary home of the famous vampire Dracula, who was transferred to the victims of those passages to die slowly after that suck their blood. The number of degrees of the castle to 1400 degrees.

Dracula Park tourism

In 2004, authorities have established a tourist ROMANIAN garden called "the garden of Dracula" as a reminder Bbtalhm Naricha and the revival of the confusion between the Prince Vlad and bat night in the forest province of Transylvania and the oak trees towering. Has a place on the club includes a model of Castle Dracula and amusement park, theater, sports complex and a disco disco, restaurants and cafes. The park site was chosen so that the next town "Esisuara" supposed birthplace of the Prince "Vlad

Attempt to clone Dracula

Newspaper published for the Romanian news Abertataata Linertatea plan seeks a number of American businessmen to reproducing Vlad (Dracula), but are not yet clear intention of those alleged to bring the blood Bmassas! , It might have been their goal to bring many of Hollywood experts and a number of security services vendors, according to the newspaper mentioned that the group of businessmen approached with the Scottish research center located in the "Rosslyn" has been the cloning of Dolly the sheep previously to study the possibility of reproduction of Dracula in the future. One of them told the newspaper that the plan of dragging its feet Cloning solve the mystery of Dracula and brings a lot of money and fame it.

Want to reproduce any monster?!

According to the book "Dracula: Prince of multi-faceted - his life and the events of" writers "Vlowsko" and "Raymond McKinley," the Vlad was called in a few days each of the beggars, the elderly and the sick and the poor to a meal and asked them: "Do you want that does not Taatkloa on one or Enqskm not anything? "They said," Yes "and then brushes wood around them in the castle and set fire to them. None of them did not remain alive. In the eyes of Vlad, that is a fulfillment of his promise made ​​by them to end their problems!. As was the execution-style with Vlad is very brutal and horrific if impaled a number of people at once. The dissection hides some of them and others to cook while they are still alive.

Myths about vampires

Addressed the cinema, especially Hollywood vampires in a lot of films to thrill those movies where it was transferred a group of superstitious ideas about the common vampire, including:

 1 - they can transform themselves into a rat, bat, wolf, raven, or even a cloud.
2 - to vampires must sleep in a coffin, even out of the coffin in the daytime burning.
3 - to vampires can not cross the high water, and also to unanimous in the mirror because they do not have the spirit.
4 - publicity hurt them religious symbols such as the cross in front of them. Or throw holy water
5 - does not kill a vampire only by stabbing him in his heart by a piece of wood and then beheaded and burned.
6 - can fortify the place of vampires by putting garlic around the house or on balconies.
7 - turn the human into a vampire in the following cases:
- The vampire drinking the blood of another, it is often bite on the neck.
- If not buried or well-reflected in the mirror image of his body.
- If the charming and ranked seventh in the family

      

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