Was Dracula a real vampire

Answer 1

No.

Early belief in vampires has thought to have come from people at the time not fully understanding the process of a body decomposing after death and so trying to rationalize this by creating the figure of the vampire to explain it.

The name comes from Vlad the Impaler, prince of Wallachia (now part of Romania). In modern Romanian, it means "son of the devil" but in Vlad's time it meant "son of the dragon." Vlad is somewhat of a national hero in Romania for preventing the expansion of the Ottoman Empire but he was (and is) notorious for the cruelty of the punishments he meted out -- his favorite method being impalement.

Bram Stoker borrowed the name for his famous vampire novel, "Dracula," but there is no evidence that the historic Dracula ever drank blood. Stoker toured Romania while gathering material for his novel and heard of Vlad in his travels. However, he demoted his character to the rank of count. The real Dracula was a prince.

He demoted his character to the rank of count because Vlad the Impaler's father was a count for the king of France. The king of France set up and order called the Order Of The Dragons. He sent the counts to rule all over the world. Vlad Tepes, Vlad the Impaler's father was sent to Romania in a town called Wallachia, now Transylvania. Vlad Tepes was proud of the order. He put the sign of the order: a dragon on the Romanian flag. The Romanian people back then were very poor and uneducated. TheY thought the dragon was the Devil, or "Dracul" in Romanian. Later, Vlad Tepes's son was born, and the rest is explained in the top paragraph.

Answer 2

Dracula was a fictional vampire. Drăculea was his real nickname indeed.

There was a real person named Vlad III the Impaler/Vlad Ţepeş (who inspired Bram Stoker), and his father was Vlad II Dracul (eng. Vlad the Devil/Dragon).

Vlad III the Impaler (1431-1476) was the leader of Transylvania, the central part of Romania. When his army would defeat enemy armies, he would have their bodies impaled at the border and left to rot. This was designed to strike fear in any following army who would arrive to attack his country (and thus some would turn back upon seeing this grisly sight).

He would drink the blood of his dead enemies as well (and thus the vampire legends). Some people in the dark ages believed the myth that this act would allow the victor to absorb the strength of the fallen.

He would also commit atrocities against his own people, when he was displeased with their stealing, lying, and adulterous relations. The atrocities would include impaling, torturing, burning, skinning, roasting, and boiling people, feeding people the flesh of their friends or relatives, cutting off limbs, and drowning. Other methods of punishment included skinning the feet of thieves, then putting salt on them and letting goats lick off the salt. This was a way that Vlad kept his people in order and taught them that stealing would not be tolerated in his lands. No exceptions were made: he punished anyone who broke his laws, whether men or women, no matter the age, religion or social class.

ADDITIONAL INFO:

The term Dracula traces its origins to Romanian language.

Drăculea is the original 'nickname' of Vlad Ţepeş ('Vlad ZZepesh', where 'ZZ' sounds exactly like in 'Pizza'), a Romanian ruler that reigned in Transilvania (Eng. Transylvania) in the years 1448, 1455-1462, 1476. Several centuries later, Bram Stoker was born, fell in love with the character and decided to dedicate him an evergreen fictional book with the principal character reshaped as Dracula. Fantasy by history. That is.

More: Vlad Ţepeş's father (nicknamed Dracul) was a respected member of The Order of the Dragon with the duty to protect the South Eastern European gate in front of invading Turks. He encouraged his son by nicknaming him 'Drăculea' (Ro. 'son of Dracul').

His language: old Romanian (as seen in the centenary national monasteries).

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Answer 3

No, he was not. Vlad III Draculea (later Dracula; also called Vlad Tepes), the real Dracula, was human. He was just a very gruesome Walachian prince. It was Bram Stoker who made him a vampire, namely Count Dracula.

Answer 4

Depends on which Dracula you mean. If you mean Count Dracula, the book character: No, this legend is not real. There was a real Dracula: Vlad III Draculea (later Dracula; also Vlad Tepes), a gruesome Walachian prince from 15th century. But he was not a vampire. He was human.

Answer 5

The character of Dracula was based of of a real person Vlad the imapler he was not a vampire but he did impale people on wooden stakes and drink there blood as wine

Answer 6

Yes. There are many evidences to say that. Ever heard about Vlad Tepes?

Answer 7

They may exist or may be it can be a rumour.