CHRISTOPHER LEE as Vlad Tepes in IN SEARCH OF DRACULA. LAWRENCE FRENCH: I understand you did a documentary on the real-life historical Dracula, Vlad Tepes. CHRISTOPHER LEE:Yes, called IN SEARCH OF DRACULA, directed by an American living in Sweden, Calvin Floyd. We went to Transylvania, which is both Romanian and Hungarian, and very beautiful, too. Its exactly like the book – mountains and mists, castles and bats – quite extraordinary. We ended up in a very old town, Pojana, with a great ruined castle, and it was cold and dark, and the moon came out as we were approaching the doorway of our lodge, and a bat flew straight across my head. The director said, They know! (Laughs). Dracula was known as Vlad the Impaler, and was a real-life monster. He impaled thousands of Turks after one battle, and then ate amongst the corpses! Vlads father was the Transylvanian ruler of the province of Wallachia, Vlad the II, and was a Knight of the Order of the Dragon. So he was called Vlad Dracul, which meant dragon. Vlad the Impaler simply signed his name, Vlad Dracula, with an a on the end, which meant son of the dragon. Stoker knew this, and he also knew the Romanian word for devil was also Dracul. So he had based the book on the historical Dracula. _______ Now, you may have heard stories about Vlads tomb being found in Naples, and they are clearly bogus. How could he have ended up in Naples? Its totally absurd! **** news.discovery/history/draculas-tomb-found-in-italy-er-not-really-140617.htm
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