Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia or Vlad the Impaler or Dracula: Vlad III spent a lot of his rule campaigning against the Ottoman empire and its expansion. The reputation of his cruelty spread all through into Europe within his life time. He became famous for taking pleasure in torturing and killing. Impalement was Vlad’s preferred form of torture/execution. There are many stories of armies turning back in disgust from seeing thousands of rotting, impaled bodies. Estimates for Vlad’s number of victims ranges from 40,000-100,000. Bram Stoker’s vampire Count Dracula was inspired by Vlad, and many adaptations of the book his history with the vampire, depicting them as the same person. -Darkillangel
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:58:29 +0000