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Very close to what I am!17:10 Jan 28 2006
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23:17 Jan 13 2006
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DRACULA
Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler (1431-1476) was the prince of Wallachia and his reign was one of the bloodiest in history. An estimated 100,000 people were killed in his reign. He got his nickname "Tepes" or "Impaler" from the manner in which he used to punish people. He would impale them on stakes, blunted or sharp, in various ways. The stakes were meant to pierce the internal organs very slowly.
These people were impaled and put on stakes around Vlad's castle. There were so many bodies that one time a Turkish army thought his castle to be surrounded by a great forest. When they came closer they realized that it was not trees but impaled bodies. Another story involves Vlad and some Italian ambassadors. When they came to Vlad's court they did not remove a little cap that they wore. It was their custom to keep it on. Vlad wanted to "strengthen" this custom, so he had their caps nailed to their heads.
Vlad also used to eat dinner amongst the bodies and he used to dip his bread in their blood. He was suspected of eating the limbs of the dead and it was proven that he forced others to eat human flesh. He also tortured and killed people in a manner related to the crime they were being punished for. He strangled, burned, boiled, skinned, roasted, blinded, and buried people alive. He not only killed men, but women, children and the elderly.
Vlad had a mistress who lived in a house in the back streets of Targoviste. This woman apparently loved him and was always anxious to please Vlad. Once, when Dracula was particularly depressed, the woman told a big lie to "please" him. She told him that she was pregnant. Vlad told her not to lie about such a subject and he was unsure of her telling to truth. So he had the woman examined by the bath matrons to determine if she was carry his child. When he found out that she was lying he drew his knife and cut her open from the groin to her breasts. Dracula then left the woman to die in agony.
On St. Bartholomew's Day in 1459 Vlad ordered thirty thousand of the merchants and nobles of the Transylvanian city of Brasov to be impaled. The prince wanted to enjoy this site so he had a table set up in the middle of this "forest". He then ordered his boyars join him for a feast amongst this. While dining, Dracula noticed that one of his boyars was holding his nose in an effort to alleviate the terrible smell. Dracula then ordered the nobleman impaled on a stake higher than all the rest so that he might be above the stench.
Once Vlad noticed a man working in the fields while wearing a too short caftan. Vlad stopped and asked the man if he were married. When the man said yes, Dracula had the woman brought before him. He asked her what she did during the day and she answered that she spent her days washing, baking and sewing. The prince pointed out her husband's short caftan as evidence of her laziness. She was then impaled despite her husbands protests. Vlad then ordered someone else to marry the man and warned them of the consequences if she became lazy like the other wife.
Dracula was known throughout the land for his insistence of honesty. Thieves seldom practiced when in Dracula's lands. For they knew the stake was what awaited. Dracula was so confident in the effectiveness of his laws that he placed a golden cup on display in the central square of Targoviste. For fear of what was to happen to whomever took it, the cup remained there, untouched.
After years of his reign, battles with the Turks, being imprisoned,and regaining his throne, he was killed by an assassin at the end of 1476, early 1477. His burial place is unknown but supposedly he is buried under a monastery. From this Bram Stoker based his story Dracula.
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