Wow! It's been a very long time since I last wrote anything! Let me just give you a piece of an advice: Don't ever cave for your moods.
This article will be dealing with the figures that are known with their blood history, on which vampires' fiction was based (it's not my responsibility if you got sick or had nightmares. It might be hard to read this if you didn't already know about it)
First, Vlad the impaler, on whom the stories count Dracula were based. Vlad ruled part of Romania in the mid fourteenth century.
Where did 'the impaler' come from? Vlad's favorite method of torture was to impale people. How was impalement done? Stakes were gradually forced into the bodies of the victims. The ends of the stakes were oiled, but not quite sharpened and they were slowly pushed into the body. The stakes were inserted in the body, starting from the buttock of the victim and pushed through their bodies until it came out from their mouths. And no, they weren't already dead. They were slowly dying and left until they rot.
In fact there are some interesting stories about the impaler. It was said that in 1461 Mohammed II, the ruler of Constantinople, a man not noted for his squeamishness, returned to Constantinople after being sickened by the sight of twenty thousand impaled corpses rotting outside of Dracula's capital (I would lose conciseness!).
Here is a picture drawn for Vlad, feasting amongst a forest of stakes (sorry for the brutality):
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The second most popular example is Erzsebet Bathory (or Elizabeth Bathory). In 1560 she was born and raised to a wealthy and prominent family during a time of war between the Turks and Austria-Hungary armies. Here are few of the examples for the torture she practiced on her victims (They're quite a lot, so I won't be writing all of them here):
1- The one who had talked during working hours, the Countess Bathory herself would sew her mouth shut, or otherwise would open her mouth and stretch it until the lips tore.
2- Bathory beat her victims, and then she froze them alive in the snows near Castle Csejthe, spoiling ice water on them in freezing weather.
3- She attacked her victims, biting their necks and shoulders with her teeth.
4- Another favorite toy of hers was the cage. It was a very narrow cage to sit in. It had spikes jutting in the cage. She imprisoned her victim in the cage and swung it, so the victim would be torn to pieces.
After those two horrifying figures comes the 'minor historical vampires', which I don't believe in:
1-The Shepherd of Blow: In a village named 'Blow', there was a shepherd who died for unknown reasons. He was said to reappear in the village and hunting its people. Anyone he would give a visit would die in about eight days. The people of 'Blow' opened up his grave and staked his corpse, which of course looked like a vampire. Staking him didn't work and he reappeared again, using the stake as a weapon against the village dogs.
2- Peter Plogojowitz: After Peter's death, the people of his village said they saw him wandering the streets at night. Also, his wife said that appeared to her, asking for his shoes. He was said to choke people and they would die in less than twenty four hours. His corpse was found intact, although he was dead for a decade. His body was staked and it bled as if he was still alive, and then they burnt him to ashes (Does 'choke them' mean he's a vampire? It sounds more like a zombie!)Again, I didn't write about what I've been told by real vampires. The next article will definitely be about that. I'll see you next time.
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As for vampyres, you don't have to BE one to be a blood-sucker. The world's religions and politicians are living proof of that.
Please, don't compare between a brutal bloody and vicious impaler to a tolerant Muslim (or even any other person) It's just not right to do that. Let's just not go too far with politics when the article isn't related to it. Let's have fun with vampires! It's much better and much more bias that way.
I agree, Dan! But they don't drink blood just because they want to. They drink it because they crave for it after a certain psychological problem occurred in their childhood. But of course, they have the choice to just decide not to drink it (that's why they're weak, I suppose. They never say 'no' to blood).
Yea! Underworld was just amazing!! But you know how Count Dracula became too old now. I'm not that fascinated by him, but I admit fiction books and movies based on Vlad's personality is quite impressing. lol yea I'm very much interested in vampires, not one of them though :) It's just so interesting to get to know how a certain category other than yours thinks and deals with problems.
My next step is art, I hope! I wanna know everything about art and I'm thinking about taking lessons to play the violin. Wish me luck!
Good luck with the arts and violin---a much healthier endeavor!
Have you heard about "Dracula's Brood"? It was written in about 1987 and it's all over web in amazon and barnes and nobles. But it's pretty rare, if even possible, to find a review for it. They just tell you, "it's some rare stories told by the friends of Stoker", but you'll never know anything more than that.
But not to worry...I hate real vampires.
How well I understand the judgement of others.
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He isn't considered evil in Romania, he is actually a heroic figure, as he is thought to be the father of their country.
A.F.Stewart, that's kinda true! Some people sad that he was a very good ruler. But still, the matter what his enemies done to him, he shouldn't have staked them and let them rot! Or at least, that's what I think.
I know Melissa! After I've read about Bathory, bathing in children blood, I read also about it being a legend. Either ways, she was very brutal and in love with blood.