GORY AND BLOODY DETAILS ABOUT THE REAL DRACULA
Added on: 9th Nov 2016
IN 1462, WHILE THE WAR BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN
EMPIRE AND DRACULA’S WALLACHIA WAS BEING
WAGED, SULTAN MEHMED II FLED WITH HIS
ARMY, INTIMIDATED AT THE SIGHT OF TWENTY
THOUSAND TURKISH IMPALED CORPSES ROTTING
ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF VLAD’S CAPITAL CITY
OF TARGOVISTE
DURING ONE BATTLE DRACULA RETREATED TO
NEARBY MOUNTAINS, IMPALING PEOPLE AS HE
WENT. THIS FORCED THE TURKISH FORCES TO
STOP GOING AFTER HIM BECAUSE THE SULTAN
COULD NOT BEAR THE STENCH FROM THE
DECAYING CORPSES
IMPALED CORPSES WERE DISPLAYED AS A
WARNING TO OTHERS, WHILE THEIR WHITE,
BLOOD-DRAINED APPEARANCE WITH A VISIBLE
NECK WOUND PERPETUATED THE NOTION THAT
VLAD TEPES WAS A VAMPIRE
DURING THE TIMES HE HAD TO RETREAT SO HE
WOULDN’T BE CAPTURED BY HIS ENEMIES, HE
WOULD BURN DOWN HIS OWN VILLAGES AND
MURDER HUNDREDS OF LOCAL PEOPLE ALONG
THE WAY SO THAT THE OTTOMAN ARMY WOULD
HAVE NOWHERE TO REST OR FIND WOMEN TO RAPE
IN AN ATTEMPT TO CLEAN UP THE STREETS OF
THE CAPITAL OF WALLACHIA (TARGOVISTE),
DRACULA INVITED ALL THE SICK, VAGRANTS
AND BEGGARS OVER TO ONE OF HIS HOMES
UNDER THE PRETEXT OF A FEAST. AFTER THEY
ALL HAD A DELICIOUS (LAST) MEAL, DRACULA
LEFT, LOCKED THEM ALL IN AND BURNED THE
BUILDING TO THE GROUND
WHEN HE WAS OLDER, VLAD WAS EVENTUALLY
CAPTURED AND DECAPITATED DURING A TURKISH
INVASION AND HIS HEAD WAS GIVEN TO THE SULTAN,
WHO IMPALED IT OUTSIDE HIS PALACE SO
EVERYBODY COULD SEE IT
IT IS BELIEVED THAT ARCHAEOLOGISTS WHO WERE
SEARCHING FOR SNAGOV (COMMUNE OUTSIDE
BUCHAREST) IN 1931 FOUND DRACULA’S REMAINS.
THE CONTENTS WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE
HISTORY MUSEUM IN BUCHAREST, BUT THEY
LATER DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A TRACE, LEAVING
THE MYSTERIES OF THE REAL PRINCE DRACULA
UNANSWERED
DESPITE HIS CRUELTY, DRACULA WAS VERY
RELIGIOUS AND SURROUNDED HIMSELF WITH
PRIESTS AND MONKS THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE.
HE FOUNDED FIVE MONASTERIES, WHILE IT IS
ESTIMATED THAT DURING A PERIOD OF 150
YEARS, HIS FAMILY ESTABLISHED OVER
FIFTY MONASTERIES
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