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Vlad Tepys was an historic personage and got his name “Vlad the Impaler” by impaling 14,000 captured Turks from a prevous battle on a hillside to discourage an another advancing Turk army. The usual depictions of this event are anatomically incorrect. The Turks were pulled over tree saplings by their legs, the sapling went up their butt and out their mouth. I know, too much detail, but it was effective and caused panic in the approaching Turks.
Brahm Stoker’s “Dracula” was a fusion of Vlad Tepys stories and those of Countess Helena Bathory who tortured to death several hundred local maidens hired for scullery work at Castle Bathory. Helena was known to bathe in their blood and, in mid Winter, allow their naked bodies to freeze solid in the courtyard to form a “sculpture garden”. She was eventually put under house arrest by her family and died naturally.
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