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Vlad the Impaler : the real Dracula who was bloodsucking man (vampire) 

VLAD DRACULA 

Bram Stoker wrote his dark novel 'Dracula' in the 19th century. Based on which many more books and movies have been made later. People around the world know Dracula as Vladimir Drakolia, Count Vlad, Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Tepes. While researching in the British Museum, Bram found this cruel ruler. The castle that he mentions in the book is actually found in a small town in Transylvania, Romania called Bran Castle.

Every year countless tourists climb the mountain slopes to take in the bone-chilling feeling of the dark fort.

In the novel, Dracula is a blood-drinking ghoul. Why is the combination of 'man' with a ruler, but the creation of such a ghostly composition! In fact, Count Vlad has a brutal record. He is infamous for impaling 80,000 to 100,000 people while alive. When a noble woman complained to him about the stench of the corpse of impale , he gave her a terrible solution. That woman was ordered to the highest impaling so that no stench could ever reach her nose.

In the Middle Ages, Romania was divided into three 'principalities' or princely states - Wallasia, Moldavia and Transylvania. Prince Vlad III was born in 1431 in the kingdom of Wallasia, south of Transylvania, in the lap of the Carpathian Mountains.

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Although there is disagreement about how Dracula got his name, most historians say it came from his father's name. His father, Vlad Dracul, was a member of the "Order of the Dragon", a secret society fighting against the Ottoman Muslims. From this association, he was given the title of 'Dracul'. The word Dracula in the ancient Wallacean language means the child of the dragon! Again the meaning of the same word changed in Romania, the devil's child!

The ancestral title Dracula later became the symbol of a monstrous demon. And he earned the title of Tepes / Impeller by virtue of his actions!

During his life, Vlad faced one war after another, he had to go through many setbacks from childhood. There was a fierce conflict between the Christian kingdoms of Europe and the Ottoman rulers. When the Ottomans captured his father's kingdom, he and his younger brother Radu were sent to Constantinople as a pledge of allegiance. Radu once converted to Islam. Even though Vlad was not a Muslim, he was initiated into the Quran, Hadith, philosophy, science, and weaponry.

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In 1447, his father Vlad Dracul was killed and his older brother Mirza was blinded with a hot iron rod and buried alive. The enraged Vlad began to refer to himself as 'Vlad Dracula' or 'Son of the Dragon'. Meanwhile his first wife committed suicide by jumping from the castle tower into the river Arges. The tragic death of three close people in succession, father, brother and wife brought about a great change in his psyche.

There is no shortage of rumors about his brutal behavior. A man sentenced to death was tied to a horse by his legs and spread out. A long wooden prong was then inserted through his anus and tried to be taken out through his mouth. The shul ( impale) was deliberately kept blunt, so that it took a long time to enter the human body and he died in agony! Punishment in this way is indicative of perverted taste.

His other punishments included crushing the offender's head with a stone, driving nails into the head, cutting off various parts of the body, etc.

No pregnant girl was spared from his cruelty. Their shul (impale) was driven over the lower abdomen, so that the blow over the baby went first. Once he burned all the poor and crippled people in his hometown of Transylvania. Because he didn't want any poor people in his town. According to some, he had an addiction to corpses. After killing a woman who cheated in love, he lived with the corpse of that woman day after day. 

He really could not tolerate any kind of traitor and deceiver. Instead of killing them directly, he first took off their skin or ordered them to be burnt in a pan of hot oil. He would easily cut the veins of their hands.

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Another demented game Vlad would play when attacking a city. Around the city, many corpses were left rotting on skewers, with their throats pierced, on his orders. Seeing this scene, the people of the attacked city would have become mentally weak before resisting. In 1462, when the then Ottoman Emperor Mehmud II went to conduct an expedition against Vlad to conquer Wallasia, he felt sick when he saw about 20,000 molten corpses impaled in an area near Vlad's capital. 

He later retreated without attacking. According to another source, in 1459, Sultan Muhammad Al Fatah sent a large army under Hamza Beg to fight against Vlad. This attack was due to the Sultan's refusal to pay the Jizya (tax). Vlad killed 20,000 soldiers including Hamza Beg and impaled them. The place that witnessed the horrific incident is known as 'The Forest of Impaled'.

Thieves also feared Vlad Dracula's gruesome punishment so much that there was no thieving in his kingdom. People also say that Vlad had a strong attraction to blood. He used to bathe in the blood of people with colic and drank the blood. He used to sit with his prisoners during meals. He would kill them on the table and soak the bread in their blood. Maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration.

But since then people started to think of him as a bloodthirsty vampire ruler, which later spread to the public as a vampire or Dracula. There is no less mystery about Vlad's death.

Vlad was killed in December 1476. The Ottomans cut off his head and impaled it at the gates of Constantinople for several months. There is no clear indication of where the rest of the body is buried.

Fortunately the subjects did not have to endure his brutality for long. He had only six years of rule. People may have survived the ruler's death, but the legendary Vlad the Dracula left behind a brutal history of demonization. However, in many parts of the Balkans, including Romania, Vlad the Impaler is given hero status. Many there believe that he gave his life to protect his homeland from illegal intruders.