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Vampires: The True Story Between Legends and Who Count Dracula Really Was

2022-09-04 20:04:51Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

 

Vampires: The True Story Between Legends and Who Count Dracula Really Was
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Humans' thirst to know more about vampires seems as endless as vampires' thirst for blood. Modern writers of vampire fiction, including Stephenie Meyer, Anne Rice, Stephen King, and many others, tend to study them. But where did vampires come from?

The origin of vampires

The most famous vampire is undoubtedly Bram Stoker's Dracula, although historians point to the real Dracula being the Roman prince Vlad Tepes (1431-1476), after whom Stoker is said to have modeled some aspects of Dracula's character. But the character of Vlad Tepes as a vampire is not seen as a blood-drinking sadist but as a national hero. He is also known as Vlad Dracula "son of the dragon".

The types of vampires that most people are familiar with (aside from Dracula) are human bodies that are said to return from their graves to harm the living called revenants. These types of vampires have Slavic origins several hundred years old. These versions of vampires were not thought to be human, but with supernatural, possibly diabolical powers.

The author of the book "From Demons to Dracula" (From Demons to Dracula), Matthew Beresford, says that the first vampires were born from a spell in Ancient Egypt. So there are many versions of the origin of vampires around the world. There are also Asian vampires, evil spirits that attack people and absorb their life energy.

Creation of vampires

Interest and belief in revenants grew in Europe during the Middle Ages. Although in most modern stories, the most classic way to become a vampire is to be bitten by one. Folklorist Paul Barber in his book "The Burial and Death of Vampires" said that many centuries ago vampires were considered children born with defects, abnormalities, and teeth. There are similar doubts about children who are born with extra teeth, or with a missing nasal bone. These are telltale signs that the child is a vampire. Such deformities were considered bad omens, and children born with these deformities were likely to be killed immediately.

Belief in vampires stems from superstitions or mistaken assumptions. Inexplicable disasters befell individuals, families, and cities. Vampires were the easiest answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people.

The villagers believed that something had cursed them with the fear of the dead. They believed that the recently dead returned from their graves with evil intentions. In Medieval Europe these were seen as unmistakable signs that vampires were real and existed among them.

Protection from vampires

According to tradition, it was believed that the best way to stop a vampire is to carry a small bag of salt with you. If a vampire is chasing you, you just have to throw salt behind you. At this point, the vampire is obliged to stop and count every grain of salt before continuing the chase. Others say that there is an unwritten rule that does not allow vampires into the house unless they are invited inside.

Legend

The legend of vampires has always been with us, from the shadows of the pyramids of ancient Egypt to the lights of the skyscrapers of New York. Every culture has its own definition of nocturnal creatures. The word we are most familiar with comes from the Slavic "vam", meaning blood, and Tpir (monster). The traditional physical appearance of vampires in European folklore is grotesque, a fearsome creature with fangs and claws. The cinematic depiction of vampires in the 1922 film Nosferatu presents viewers with an accurate portrayal of the traditional vampire. In this film, which was the unauthorized version of Murnau's Dracula, we see actor Max Schreck as a black-eyed bloodsucker who stalks the shadows with pointed devilish ears and poisonous teeth.

The vampire community

Merticus is the administrator of Voices for the Vampire Community, a community of people who use the word vampire to describe themselves. "When a serious member of the vampire community describes themselves as a vampire they don't mean that they think they're characters with supernatural abilities or that they hope you'll believe they're hundreds of years old and live in a castle," says Merticus. The unifying factor of this group is that the community believes they are vampires, an attitude supported by the fact that, as Merticus puts it, "there is no functional definition of a true vampire." "This happens because no one knows what is the cause of this phenomenon and the community revolves around a set of common perceptions and symptoms and not based on an existing principle. Therefore, we can describe some experiences related to being a vampire, but these should not be used as a complete list of what defines a vampire. There are no necessary and sufficient conditions that must be met to be a vampire. Vampires that feed on blood must consume small amounts of blood from donors. Most blood drinkers report receiving a very small amount once a week. Feeding is a health need, vampires have reported negative health symptoms when they have tried to ignore blood feeding," says Merticus. Most blood drinkers report receiving a very small amount once a week. Feeding is a health need, vampires have reported negative health symptoms when they have tried to ignore blood feeding," says Merticus. Most blood drinkers report receiving a very small amount once a week. Feeding is a health need, vampires have reported negative health symptoms when they have tried to ignore blood feeding," says Merticus.

Count Dracula

Count Vlad Dracula has remained one of the characters, which will never be forgotten by the history of mankind. Above all, he will be remembered wearing the ultimate symbol of evil that has sometimes been compared to the devil himself, who had taken human form. Dracula was one of the bravest warriors in the battles against the Ottoman Empire. He followed various tactics to terrify the opponent. His most famous psychological tactic was impaling captured opponents on skewers, thus building an entire forest of human bodies. Large spikes were driven into the ground, and upon them were captured opponents, who hovered in the air until they died, fixed on those well-sharpened spikes. The heads were square, everywhere and these were the scenes that the Ottomans faced in the fields.

Vampires: The True Story Between Legends and Who Count Dracula Really Was

Horror crossed all borders and soon Dracula was considered by the Ottomans as the devil himself. They went so far as to believe that it was not human. An image in which the profile of this terrible warrior can be clearly seen is also an engraving showing Vlad Dracula eating breakfast. He is shown sitting at a table in the middle of a field, surrounded by hundreds of bodies stuck on skewers. Enjoying this atmosphere while eating his breakfast shows how insatiable he was with the suffering of his opponent. The terror and reputation of this man became so legendary that today it is believed that he was a representative of the devil or the devil himself.

Count Vlad Ţepes, whose residence was located in Sighisoara, Romania, was neither a vampire nor any other supernatural creature. This bad nickname came to the count from his nickname. However, the cruel stories about him are very likely to be true. And Tepes was a nickname as well, not his last name, since Vlad enjoyed punishing the people with hunches (tep means "spear" in Romanian). It is even said that he once nailed the hats to the heads of the ambassadors of France because they refused to take them off in front of him. After that, he cut off the head of his servant to put it on the hu, as he was a weak boy who could not stand the smell of corpses. Another story that is told about the terrible count is that once he gathered all the beggars of his area for a feast and after it, he burned them all. The Batakchis on the other hand believed that he killed two birds with one stone, freed the country from beggars and saved them from suffering. Also, it is said that Dracula ordered the hands of a peasant's wife to be cut off and then her head to be placed on a pyre according to his custom, because she met her husband wearing torn clothes. This was then used as a scare argument for the other villagers to always patch their clothes.

One of Dracula's bloodiest crimes was when he ordered the execution of ten thousand people at a time in a small town that was late in paying his taxes, which was about two silver coins.

After this macabre act, Dracula laughingly said to the surviving minority: "This will make others always pay on the fixed date what they owe me". On his order, once again many people were burned in their houses and the corpses were thrown as food to the crabs in a pond in the area. Then he collected the crabs and gave them to the families of those who dared to step on his power. During the evenings that he organized, he liked to lay the corpses of his enemies with their throats cut and open in another hall and put glasses filled with wine in their hands. On a mountain in Brasov called the Black Castle is a castle that the owner gave Dracula as a birthday present. Dracula, not liking something small in the castle, ordered to kill the vassal during the day.

But several hundred years had to pass when medical experts concluded that Dracula had suffered from persistent and slow schizophrenia as well as from another rare disease called porphyria. Symptoms of this disease are phobia of sunlight (ultraviolet can cause cancerous tumors), long hair that looks like body clothing, sharpening of teeth, etc. But the most important thing about this disease is the constant need to drink blood. This also explains the legends of vampirism.

During his reign (1456-1462), "Vlad the Bloodsucker" is said to have killed between 40,000 and 100,000 European civilians (political rivals, criminals, and anyone else he deemed "useless to humanity"), mostly using his preferred method of impaling heads on lances on sharp stakes. The main sources relating to these events are records from neighboring Transylvania, which had frequent clashes with Vlad III. And yet Vlad III is respected as a folk hero by Romanians for defeating the Turkish invaders. His victims are said to be more than 100,000 Ottoman Muslims.

Historically, the name "Dracul" is derived from a secret fraternal order of knights called the Order of the Dragon, founded by Sigismund of Luxemburg (King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor) to defend Christianity and defend against the Ottoman Empire .

There is also speculation that Dracula harbored a great hatred for women, and as a result, his crimes were numerous against them. He became even more cruel to unfaithful wives, girls who did not keep their virginity, and passionate widows, apparently trying to impose a puritanical morality among his subjects.

But despite his cruel crimes, recently some Romanian officials came up with the idea of ​​building a huge horror park on the territory of Sighisoara. The park will feature attributes of the Inquisition and other bloody periods in human history such as skulls, guillotines, electric chairs and various torture devices. But there are several different social and ecological organizations, including UNESCO, which are against this construction. They believe that the park will be harmful to the environment and spoil the historic atmosphere of the place.


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