Did you heard about DRACULA?

no what about him?

Dracula pt straini vine din romania (castelul peles). Nu?

Oh yeah!..I have...I'm not goth..but I've had a fasination with him and vampires for yrs...lol...hell..one of my names is dc_alucard

Hear what about him??

No

yeah hope i see one

Yes, from the historical perspective of Vlad the Impaler to the Hollywood versions of Dracula.

heard? v hv been best of pals for last 700 years or so

Not recently?lol

yes I wantch many movies based on dracula

I have seen them in Movies

Dracula, the myth of Stocker's. What I enjoy in it is that there are some connections between myth and history when talking about Dracula. Stoker came across some information about vampire beliefs in Transylvania which he used in the novel. But Stoker did not make up the name "Dracula". Every myth has an origin somewhere in the reallity. There was a Dracula in the 15th century: Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes in Romanian language), descended from Basarab the Great, a fourteenth-century prince who is credited with having founded the state of Wallachia, part of present- day Romania. This name, from the Turkish nickname "kaziklu bey" ("impaling prince"), was used by Ottoman chroniclers of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries because of Vlad's fondness for impalement as a means of execution. In 1431, the senior Vlad (the futher) received a honor: the initiation into the Order of the Dragon. Vlad then took on the nickname "Dracul". The Wallachian word "dracul" was derived from the Latin "draco" meaning "the dragon". The younger Vlad adopted the name "Dracula" indicating "son of Dracul" or "son of the Dragon". Vlad Dracula is the name he liked to use about himself, most probably and not Vlad the Impaler. Stocker who never visited Wallachia came across his name in a book he was researching entitled AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPALITIES OF WALLACHIA AND MOLDAVIA (1820). Vlad's bloodthirsty exploits may have led him to being linked with the legends of blood- drinking vampires!