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- From: nelson@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Jeffrey J. Nelson)
- Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
- Subject: Re: Re:Vlad?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.221933.17725@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 22:19:33 GMT
- References: <13NOV92.18525426@vax.clarku.edu>
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- Reply-To: nelson@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Jeffrey J. Nelson)
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- In article <13NOV92.18525426@vax.clarku.edu>, rgoldberg@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- |> .... Dracul meant both
- |> Dragon and Devil at that time. Dracul was a knight in the Order of the
- |> Dragon, which fought the Turks. It is not known which definition people were
- |> referring to when they nicknamed him Dracul. ....
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- I've heard (heresay evidence) it is almost certain they meant Dragon.
- At that time calling someone Devil was way too strong, even for an blood
- thirsty ruler like the later Vlad. His father was not nearly as blood
- thirsty.
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- |> For more info, read "The Vampire" (or is it "Vampires") by Montague Summers
- |> or "In Search of Dracula" by McNally and Florescu.
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- Sorry, can't remember my own source. It was something of a biography of Stoker.
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- - Jeff
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