Shrouded in mystery, a ghastly pale face, with protruding razor fangs made his way to me. Eyes ablazed and sinister, it stared straight into my soul..and all I could do was stare back..knowing that it would be the last thing I'd see before my time comes to an end..
Dramatic as it is, it should do well as as an opening introduction to my very subject of Vampires.
But what exactly is a vampire? Are they real? Do they really feed on blood?
I won't be expanding on what a vampire is and such. That is not my motive for this post.
What I am going to be introducing..is far more sinister than that of a Vampire..in fact, this two particular historical figures could almost be said to be a Vampire.
Vlad III Dracul, was a Prince of Wallachia from 1431 to 1476/77, known for his fugarative thirst for blood.
As his nickname "Vlad the Impaler" suggest, he had such a penchant for torturing his victims and enemies through the method of Impalement.
How exactly was that done? Well, he first pierced his enemies through the torso or the anus, with large stakes planted to the ground, followed by the mouth of the victim. It would be thousands or hundreds impaled at once, and the worst thing? The victims don't die immediately. In fact, it takes few hours for them to die, meaning that they had to go through agonizing pain. The combined death by his impalements were approximate of 100,000! Just imagine that! And most of this were especially for his sadistic pleasings!
Some even said he dined while watching his victims suffer..and others ventured to say that he dipped his bread in their blood!
I guess this was why Bram Stoker had him as a huge inspiration in the thrilling novel of Dracula, who was a vampire. All this, makes me wonder if he was actually a vampire..
Dinning with entertainments of sufferings.
Countess Erzsebet Bathory
Exactly next to the whereabouts of Vlad in Romania, is Hungary. That was where a certain notorious Countess had lived in. She is the very horrible, Countess Erzsebet Bathory (1560-1614) who was from the known Bathory family of nobility in the kingdom of Hungary.
Sadistic as Vlad, she had tortured and killed many especially young girls for her own pleasures. It began with her girl servants, where she beat them to death or even dragged them out in the winter, naked, and threw icy cold water on them, freezing them to death.
The interesting part is yet to come. She had bathed in her female victim's blood. Why? From what she had discovered, it had appearsd to her that the blood reduced signs of ageing. There were even stories of her drinking the blood.
As the number of deaths of girls made up to around 650, the Kingdom had grown worried and afraid, at last making a decision to put her in trial for her crimes. In the end, she was executed.
It is such a pity that they did not have anti-ageing creams back then. At least, it could have saved her the many troubles.
Though Vampire or not, she very much does resembles one.
Now that I come to think about it, I guess maybe Vampires aren't as bad compared to
those two examples I've given. Sure, Vampires supposedly feed on blood and so on but the thing is..they could be real or fake. However, those two examples I've given had been alive once, and did those unspeakable horrid tortures. But then again, if one were to ask of a living proof, why not we take a look at this very generation, where destructions by weaponries as bombs and deaths of innocents by those causes are endless.
It is said that Vampires have no heart. But I think, Humans are the one who has no heart. So Vampire alike? I guess not. Humans are worse.
Bombings in Gaza.
End.
*images taken from Google.
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