sapphi_snake said:
pizzahut451 said:
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MrBubbles said:
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This thread is a great ideea. I'll think of a question and answer later. Anyone who wants to know anything about Romanian culture can ask. 
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y do u all like to bite people and drink their blood?
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Actually, Romanians stole our vampire thunder. First story of vampires comes from Serbia, not Romania. in fact, vampire comes from Serbian vampir , so its a Serbian word. Two famous vampire cases, the first to be officially recorded, involved the corpses of Peter Plogojowitz and Arnold Paole from Serbia. Plogojowitz was reported to have died at the age of 62, but allegedly returned after his death asking his son for food. When the son refused, he was found dead the following day. Plogojowitz supposedly returned and attacked some neighbours who died from loss of blood.In the second case, Paole, an ex-soldier turned farmer who allegedly was attacked by a vampire years before, died while haying. After his death, people began to die in the surrounding area and it was widely believed that Paole had returned to prey on the neighbours.Another famous Serbian legend involving vampires concentrates around a certain Sava Savanović living in a watermill and killing and drinking blood from millers. Both of these cases are treated as true (they are documented), unlike Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (Dracula) who has nothing to do with vampires at all
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Well, you can blame a British guy for us stealing your "vampire thunder". The word "vampire" comes from your language, but the concept of "vampire" is millennia old, dating way back to Mesopotamia. As for Dracula, he was just a bloody sociopath, not a vampire (but the documented cases you mentioned were as much about vampires as the people who were killed during the Inquisition for witchcraft were withces).
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The orgin of a modern vampire is slavic...
Also, dont you dare insult great prince Vlad Tepes, the son of Dragon...he gave the Turks what they deserved, a little taste of thier medicine
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I'd say that the modern vampire with all it's clichees was created by British writers. If you look at Slavic legends you'll see that there are elements not present in modern vampires (for example in some slavic folklore a vampire can be born if people commit incest).
As for Vlad Ţepeş, the son of Dragon??? Are you confusing him with some video game charatcer or something? And he was a a bloody tirant because the only punishment he knew was cutting people's heads off (why do you think Stoker was inspired by him?).
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Yes, but before the British and Germans started writng about vampires, they were already wide known in slavic provinces: The german writer (i forgot his name, its on wikipedia) started writing about vampires when he visited Austro Hungarian part of Serbia. And yes, there are diffrences between some slavic people and modern vmapire but most of them are still in recognised as slavic orgin.
As for Vlad Tepes, im not confusing him with anyone, im talking about Vlad III the Impaler? And he was well know for his resistance against the Turks and his brutallity towards them. And btw, he didnt cut off people's heads, he impaled them :) That was his favorite execution method. Thats why I like him - he gave the turks a taste of their own medicine. in 1459, Mehmed sent envoys to Vlad to urge him to pay a delayed tribute of 10,000 ducats and 500 recruits into the Ottoman forces. Vlad refused. In order to provoke and instigate war with the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, Vlad had the Turkish envoys killed on the pretext that they had refused to raise their "hats" to him, by nailing their turbans to their heads. LOL, that guy was is a major IRL troll.
