Vlad the Impaler
By: Michelle Taylor

Many people know the story of the famous Count Dracula from Transylvania. But does I’m going to tell you who the fiction character Dracula is based on. There is a lot of similar aspects that you will recognize between the fiction character and the man he is based on. Count Dracula was made famous threw the novel wrote by Bram Stoker based on Vlad the Implaer.
Vlad the Implaer a prince during the Middle Ages. Also known as Vlad Dracula. Dracul meaning “Devil’ Dracula meaning “son of the Devil”. When he was in power he has a lust for blood and was a very cruel man and ruler. He would torture his prisoners and it was said that he love to watch them suffer. They said he liked to watch them suffer and would kill them by implaler his prisoners with stakes of wood. This lead to him being called and other known as Vlad the Impaler for the cruel way he would kill prisoners. They said that this was a very painful way to die which gave Vlad that more pleasure. Vlad was familiar with the mythology of the werewolf. It would have been a myth he was raised with and taught to fear.
Now Dracula a man that thirsted for the taste of blood, only thing that could kill him was a stake to the heart or the werewolf was written to betray the role as how Bram Stoker saw Vlad III role which then in return made Vlad stand out enough to be noticed and to make it into today’s History. Similarities of Vlad and Dracula are so common but not all more or less opposite