So what’d they call him? Vlad the guy?
Vlad the normal person who doesn’t impale people
That’s why he started the impaling. His name was too long.
Makes sense
Vlad the existent
Vlad the Pale
Vlad the expaler.
Is that a word?
Impale, expale, I just got an ounce in the mail.
Vlad the good Lad
Vlad the not yet impaler?
Perhaps he was well endowed and already had the title before.
Vlad the Impugner. He used to accuse people of lying all the time.
He did impale a loooooot of people though. He also had the title “Dracula”, and may be the source of some of the legends about vampires.
So yeah, it’s never too late to pursue your dreams, but you do still have to get off your ass and pursue the hell out of them. Also it helps if your dad is rich and powerful.
His father was in the order of the dragon. So he was Vlad Dracul, or Vlad the dragon. Vlad is the son of Dracul: Dracula or Vlad the son of the dragon. So basically the vampire is just the son of a dragon, which is pretty metal, but not as metal as the actual dragon.
It is a very metal title, and it’s no wonder Bram Stoker chose it as the name of his character.
I still maintain that vampires = rabies, though.
- Biting - the main way rabies is transmitted
- Weak to holy water - rabies causes hydrophobia
- Snarling faces - rabies causes muscles to tighten, dogs who have rabies are very snarly
- Transforms into bats, wolves, etc - rabies is often spread by these animals
- Feeds on livestock - many “prey” animals primarily exhibit the paralytic form of rabies
- No reflection - in the past, a person was not considered rabid if they could look at their own reflection
Give me any other vampire trope, I think I can relate it to rabies.
Would love to hear garlic and wooden stakes
- Garlic - rabies victims have an aversion to strong stimuli, eg taste, smell, and also light.
- Wooden stakes - in the late stages rabid people are paralytic. They’re still alive, but don’t move. However, if you stab them they might scream.
I know you watched the same behind the bastards episode… But basically all of Romania, the people behind these, used it as the devil meaning. Yes the word might have medieval origins, but what Robert overlooked is when the stories actually began being formed.
Yes the word might have medieval origins, but what Robert overlooked is when the stories actually began being formed.
Yes exactly! But at least he did mention rabies, and Balkan legends involving werewolves, even if only in passing.
Tbh I think there are so many facets to the “vampire” and associated legends that anyone can be forgiven for not comprehensively covering all of them - particularly with how they’ve been blended together over the last century or so. The podcast is meant to be about specific bastard people, after all.
I don’t imply to be an expert. But all the information I got was from the first paragraph of vlad the impaler and vlad II Dracul.
It is interesting that in Romania it’s a synonym for devil. That’s metal.
But about the midieval origins, Vlad the Impaler is from the actual middle ages. As is his father. So I would assume the midieval origins are “the Dragon” or “Son of the Dragon”. Any other origins might be influenced by Vlad II or Vlad the impaler.
They might have been: Vlad Bad, Dragon = devil. And it stuck. But I don’t know. I’m not a historian.
You say that, but I’m 46 and I’ve never been given the opportunity to impale anyone. Now is that fair?
the opportunity has always been there, your eyes just weren’t open to it yet
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And the Prisons For Profit of America Association.
Maybe you just haven’t really applied yourself.
Yeah before that he was called “some dude in a weird hat.” I’m glad he found a hobby that he was good at.
So what you’re saying that I’m already half a decade late to start impaling people? Well, fuck…
Wait wait don’t tell me taught me he was probably vegan.
i hope my 30s aren’t mid
This demon got his head shopped off and impaled (if I recall correctly) outside of Istanbul.
In 1476, while marching to yet another battle with the Ottomans, Vlad and a small vanguard of soldiers were ambushed, and Vlad was killed and beheaded — by most reports, his head was delivered to Mehmed II in Constantinople as a trophy to be displayed above the city’s gates.
He got what was coming to him.
There is still time, is what you’re saying…
Also, in those days, that was like 50.
