Dracula – as perceived today – is the result of interference of the real historical facts, entered into legend, about the reign of Vlad Tepes – Dracula, the records of the chroniclers of the time, with the intention of the great prince put in a bad light, amplified in the next century by association with the character of the fiction novel “Dracula“, published in England in 1897, having as author on the Irish writer Bram Stoker.
Romanian Country truth about Prince Vlad Tepes (1456-1462, 1476) is known from many works of Romanian and foreign historians. Convinced that only a strong ruler could ensure order inside the country and organize a successful defense of her external dangers Vlad Tepes recourse to authoritarian rule, requires honesty and diligence of his subjects as virtues, dishonesty (theft) were punished laziness and cunning harshly by impaling a cruel punishment, but can be understood only in relation to the times in which he lived, an era of great cruelty, which has seen other punishment, as harsh, such as burning , Hangman, etc. ..
Due to its drastic measures, Vlad Tepes has managed to establish order in the country, “Foreign mercy and mercy – say ADXenopol history – he made a terrible job of yarn in his country and after a clean inner relay, he put chest demean that country had fallen.

His works have attracted many of his contemporaries but hatred. They defame and accused him of understanding with the Turks, contrary to the interests of the country, was imprisoned by King Matthias Corvinus and later face or cruel man, but put “a terrible job of yarn in his country, was associated with vampire Dracula, the main character of famous fiction novel “Dracula” the Irish writer Bram Stoker published in London in 1897 and considered by Oscar Wilde “perhaps the most beautiful novel of all time”.

The connection is made between the character of Bram Stoker’s novel and Prince Vlad Tepes-Dracula is even suggested by the author, who mentions: “… it was really that prince Dracula who has obtained the name of opposing the Turks over the great river right from the border with Turkey. Bram Stoker believes that it was not an ordinary man “for the centuries to speak of him as the most skilful, the most cunning but also the most valiant of the sons of the country beyond the forest, his keen spirit and will of Iron came to him in the grave and fight and now “. Here the author connects with faith related to strigoi, whose existence, imagined the popular belief, does not end once the generation of origin: “We death (ie strigoi, vampires) suffer from the curse of immortality, says Bram Stoker, pass out an age and multiplying other victims, increasing the evils of the world … “.

Characters in the novel “Dracula” are the result of fantasy author, but the facts of Count Dracula and his end are based on popular beliefs about the existence of evil forces: vampires or strigoi. In many peoples beliefs vampires are dead people who by virtue of a sentence or a curse during life, leaving his grave at night and wandering among the living people who sleep and suck their blood – their only food. Everything is considered and vampire bat, an animal that lives on in the cave at night to suck blood out and the people .* In Central America and South America vampires are a large bat species feed on blood of birds and mammals found in sleep . In his famous work Odisseea poet Homer, identify the souls of the dead bat.

In popular beliefs of the Carpathian-Danubian-Pontic correspondent in acceptance of people dead vampire who leave their tomb at night and wandering among the people living on it surprise you to sleep and do a lot of inconvenience and damage, they suck blood and milk taken cattle, the strigoi. May be strigoi living, one that – as recorded folklorist I. Aurel Candrea – “all day he sees things that other people, but at night i fell asleep as soon as the soul goes out to meet with other strigoi, and the body remains as dead on the bed. The souls of these strigoi … kill children and suck their blood, take the hand of the cows and the crops. The same author says that “then you die one of these beings that are believed to have been ghost is summer in the heart of redness on a spit fire or even for her soul can not escape from the grave and not torture people night.

In Romanian mythology and strigoi are dead, those spirits of dead people from the former strigoi alive or where they went wrong some of the ordinances of the funeral, have lost the way to the other world or what had to pay customs. Besides the damage that they are people in life – say Sat. Fl Marian – Strigoi dead “eat one by one each member of their family or they eat only the heart and suck their blood.

As seen today, Dracula himself appears Romanian Country prince, Vlad Tepes, in whose face (appeared in a woodcut of the “German Stories About Dracula Prince” appeared in Nuremberg in 1488) is represented in many commercial advertisements. In this depiction is not viewed as a real historical figure, but as a vampire as is known, by Western tourists, from Bram Stoker’s novel and the numerous films were made in the West since 1922.
Thus, while the Roman ruler’s portrait, which appears on the cover stories German edition, published in Bamberg in 1491, suggests a sense of justice that the transformed life, by means of a special cruelty, judged by standards of the contemporary epoch, but typical time in which he lived, the image transposed on the screen we play a Dracula with a figure of cruelty that no one has to do with the spirit of justice. This image, fancy and terrifying, is the taste of tourists who went in search of sensational and, once arrived in Romania, Bran Castle and associated (which by appearance and location to emit an air of mystery) with the locations where the haunting imagery Dracula.

Bran Castle, one of the most valuable monuments of medieval architecture in Romania, officials historical, military and economic, is known by worldwide tourists as Dracula’s Castle.
Most tourists, after visiting Bran Castle, leaving disappointed that did not meet Dracula - The vampire who sucks the blood of men, known from movies and figure associated with Romanian Prince Vlad Tepes – Dracula. And not meet him because visitors do not distinguish between a historical reality and the origin story behind both the character of Bram Stoker’s novel, entitled Dracula, the action is based on popular beliefs about strigoi and vampires and legends about Vlad Tepes, especially those which show him as a cruel prince. Interference with the main character in the novel Dracula legends real Prince Vlad Tepes – Dracula, a reference figure of Roman history, spawned an imaginary character known as Dracula’s vampire as an embodiment of evil that violate human, ii struggles and those came under the domination of converts into the forces of evil. This character exists at the imaginary and can not be shown in a museum exhibition, as is that of Bran Castle.

Bran Castle Dracula’s castle was baptized three decades ago, by tourists, especially Americans, who came in search of Dracula in horror movies made after a novel by Bram Stoker. Tourists are surprised to enter a castle in Transylvania that the appearance resembled the castle described by Irish author. Therefore they named Castle Dracula. What about Dracula may be among the imagination of tourists come in search of vampire and Bran Castle? It’s simple. If it is the ruler of the Romanian Country, the history recorded many campaigns undertaken by Vlad – Impaler – Dracula Brasov who punish merchants Saxon prince disobeyed the commandments of the trade fairs of the Romanian Country. And it makes sense for the transition to be made on the Bran pass closest to Brasov, which connects with Târgovişte, Mr Highlander. Relations with the Bran castellans not being too friendly, because they were representatives of the city center, hostile Vlad Tepes.
If Vlad Tepes ruled Bran Castle is hard to answer because it recorded no written documents. But existing records in the archives of the Castle – Bran Castle, as many are still preserved, are primarily administrative in nature, is related to income and expenses on the area of the city Bran and very little at events for political-military. Arguably, however, that in autumn 1462 after the army of the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, caught near the city of Dambovita Bridge, near Rucar, situated about 25 km from Bran, Prince Vlad Tepes was taken to Castle Bran and imprisoned here for a couple of months, as the recent volume recorded Vlad Tepes Dracula, Editura Mirador, Arad, 2002, author George Lazea Postelnicu. From there he was taken and imprisoned in Visegrad Citadel.

In terms of vampire, known in Romanian folklore as the strigoi, (name of vampire is met in Serbian) is to mention that in the villages of Bran is preserved faith on the existence of evil spirits called strigoi (variant of strigoiului) .
Village elders remember that until half a century ago it was believed that there were some people in life – strigoi – who led a normal life day and at night sleeping in their souls left the band and haunting the village and tortured people in sleep. These evil spirits from haunted midnight until the roosters sang first, when no longer had the power to causing bad people.
Belief in strigoi and other evil spirits is a part of popular mythology. It can be told, imagined by every individual. But beyond this imaginary universe populated with vampires and ghosts, the tourist can meet at Bran a reality that will enjoy and relax the soul.
The fierce image of Dracula in thought, came to Bran, the tourist will meet in the beautiful places in this mountain area shepherds with herds to grazing or mowing the grass, whose women to war woven textiles that adorn the interiors of homes or preparing traditional dishes (Bulzul Shepherd, beat, beat milk, etc..) both in their household and in bed that is prepared for those who want to spend at Bran from sunrise until the sunset and you can even overnight, the dream will come and Dracula vampire whose strength will wither on the clove housewife sitting above the entry door so she knows that the old house that is defending the evil spirits.

Castle Bran the place where Vlad Tepes lived also knowned as DRACULA.       
Vlad Tepes adopted the method, very popular in Middle West, from his good cousin Stephen the Great, the latter being the first to use this terrible agony in the Romanian people.
However, about Stephen the Great is the description given by John Neculce, in his omnibus entitled “A bat of words” which is described as “a great man of state, rather fast, fierce and feasts with blood without remorse.

In terms of vampire, known in Romanian folklore as the strigoi, (name of vampire is seen in Serbian) is noted that the faith is preserved in the villages of Bran on the existence of evil spirits called strigoi. Village elders remembered that until half a century ago it was believed that there were some people in life – strigoi – who went on a normal life, and during the night in sleep, their souls left the band and haunting the village and tortured people in sleep. These evil spirits haunt from midnight until the first singing of the roosters, they no longer had the power to causing bad to people.

Belief in strigoi and other evil spirits is a part of popular mythology. It can be told, imagined by every individual. But beyond this imaginary universe populated with vampires and strigoi, the tourist can meet in Bran reality that will enjoy and relax the soul.
The fierce image of Dracula in mind, came to Bran, the tourist will meet in beautiful places in this mountain area shepherds with herds to grazing or mowing the grass, whose women to war woven textiles adorn the interiors of homes or preparing traditional dishes (Bulzul Shepherd, beat, beat milk, etc..) both in their household as well as hostels for those who say prepared to spend at Bran from sunrise until sunset and even over night when perhaps the dream will come and Dracula vampire whose strength will wither on the clove housewife sitting above the door entrance for the elderly so she knows that the house of evil spirits appear.

Note that many people in Romania near castle Bran still live with fear of the strigoi and have meet at least one person who have the capacity of turning in to a strigoi.

Strigoi are creatures “mythological” of people if subsequently adopted by the Romanian people. Strigoi representation Gauls believed evil spirits of those whose deeds asleep were not worthy of entering the “kingdom of Zamolxis“, but these data were transmitted only orally, legend and lost the original content. Romanian people then transformed into bloodthirsty creatures with the power to take any form and to control the thinking people at this point of view (people under the influence of alcohol, people with mental problems, etc.).