Dracula

[Somebody17]

As Dracula is a mythological being from Transylvania,could it be a Romanian word?

[kempie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_Dracula

[tictactoe]

Next your gonna tell me Santa ain't real?

[lovbooks]

Dracula was based on a Count in Transylvania who was called Ivan the Impailer who would do horrible things to his prisoners.... it then blew up into this whole fascinating legend

[Postdog]

Except that it was actually VLAD the impaler, not ivan. Do a google and there is loads of stuff.

[jno]

the original was a South African antelope called Vlad the Impala...

[Tatty Rollox]

..... and Vlad is at http://tinyurl.com/muo5s .....

[naz_nomad]

Just remember ...blood is thicker than water.




And much tastier.

Vampire bat ---> ^^^Ŏ^^^

[delboy3]

As the Wikipedia article mentions, 'Dracul' was the Romanian word for dragon.

[rojash]

Well, I thought it was funny, jno

[jno]

thank you, rojash, glad someone is awake out there