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- From: melchar@west.darkside.com (Melchar)
- Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
- Subject: Re:Vlad?
- Message-ID: <2VcDuB1w165w@west.darkside.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 05:53:36 GMT
- References: <13NOV92.18525426@vax.clarku.edu>
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- rgoldberg@vax.clarku.edu writes:
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- > Vlad the Impaler, aka Vlad Tepes, aka Dracula, is one source of the Dracula
- > story by Stoker and of Vampire legends in general. He was a 14th or 15th
- > century prince of Wallachia and got his nickname, Tepes (the impaler) for his
- > winning diplomatioc style. His father was Vlad Dracul, and 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. Dracula means "Son of Dracul".
- > 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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- It's 'Vampires, their kith & kin' -- by Summers.....good read, too.
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