dracula legend

Bran Castle was originally a fortress built by the Teutonic Knights in 1212. Vlad Tepes used Bran Castle as a starting point for his incursions in Transylvania. Americans settled in Romania visit this castle especially around Halloween is one of the few places where you can feel the atmosphere of this holiday in our country. Dracula legend became myth in the 19th and 20th centuries. This legend is closely related to Romanian historical figure of Prince Vlad Tepes, known for his cruelty immeasurable. Texts from the 15th century, they saw the legend as two different images of the prince, one who depict as a tyrant, the other as a harsh ruler, ruthless but loving country and brave, fierce battles against the Turks. Born in 1431 in Sighisoara, Vlad Tepes Dracula was a prince carefully nation and country, but the times we remember with horror and fear. They say that starting the fight leave their beloved wife, Elizabeth, alone in the castle. Turks urzesc plan after which the queen and suicide plague starts. Vlad returns home to find his wife in a pool of blood. Full of pain and anger he stabbed it blasphemes God and the cross begins to bleed, and sells his soul in exchange for immortality dark side of humanity, the Devil. The name Dracula comes from her impalement, one of the most horrible ways to die, the favorite method of execution thereof. In 1431 Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg invests him Dracula's father, Vlad, the Order of the Dragon, which included only crowned heads, a knightly order dedicated to fighting against the Turks. The emblem of the order was a dragon, symbol of the devil. Moving from Dracula, a ruler who brutally punished river benefactors, the vampire Dracula was made by associating images of German stories suggesting ruler passion for bloodshed, as happened when the ruler dining between nobles punished by dragging corpses impaled and popular beliefs about the undead gathered in Transylvania by Austrian soldiers.