Research Paper On Vampire

The term vampire is said to have entered into the English language around 1732 (Beresford, 2008). The word Upir, term translated to vampire, dates back to 1047 when the first written form was found in a letter to a Novgorodian prince (Vampirologist). According to Merriam-Webster, the term was derived possibly from the German Vampir. If you look up the definition of a vampire on Google, it would say a vampire is a corpse that leaves its grave at night to drink blood from the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth. The vampire has evolved over the centuries. Vampires have been making a comeback within the last forty years and continues to rise in popularity. There has been an increase in the number of Hollywood films, television

When she was fifteen, she was married to Count Ferenc Nadasdy, the Count at the time was 26 years old. They lived in Castle Csejthe according to the Hungarians or Castle Cachtice according to the Slovak. Count Ferenc was a Hungarian national hero of the wars against the Turks (Malathronas). She had a child named Anna in 1585, had two more girls Ursula and Katherina, and later in 1598, she had a son named Paul ("Shyla's History of Erzsébet"). Her husband wanted to please his wife, there are reports that he built a torture chamber that met her specifications. There are many reports of what Bathory did to her servant girls, while her husband was alive, jamming pins and needles under the fingernails and into the lips of servant girls was just one of many. She tied them down, smearing honey on them, leaving them to be attacked by bees and ants. It is believed that the Count participated in her cruelties but also restrained her. ("Bathory’s torturous escapades are exposed") Count Ferenc died in battle in the early 1600s. After his death, Elizabeth now in her 40s. More cruelties that she did included cutting the girls with scissors, and burning them with hot irons, while some were beaten to death and others were starved (Cavendish). Elizabeth slapped a girl for accidentally pulling her hair, the slap on the girls hand made it bleed, the blood landed on Elizabeth’s hand. Elizabeth thought her skin took

Vlad was the second of four brothers born in a well distinguished family. Vlad and his younger brother moved to Targoviste, Wallachia when his father took over the leader roll, in 1436. After six years, he was removed from power by rivals. He thought the best way to get back his throne was to go against his oath to order and ally with Ottomna Sultan. Vlad’s father proved his loyalty by sending his two sons Vlad and the youngest Radu, to the court of Sultan to be held hostage. This was to ensure that his father was loyal to the Ottomans during the war with Hungary. Raud had left Christianity and converted to Islam during this time. Vlad grew a hatred for the Ottoman Turks ("The UnMuseum Real Dracula: Vlad the Impaler") In 1447 his older brother Mircea and father where killed at the order of Iancu of Hunedoara, ruler in Transylvania ("From Vlad Tepes to Count Dracula"). The Ottomans feared that this would give Hungaria a large amount of influence in Wallachia, they went and put Vlad III on the throne. He ruled for only a few months before Hungaria invaded and overthrew Dracula and put someone else on the throne in his place. After he was thrown out he lived with his uncle in Moldavia, after fleeing the country, up until his uncle’s death in 1451. The Hungarian regent John Hunyadi, who was an enemy of Vlad’s, is who Vlad went to for help. Vlad, twenty-one years old at the time, impressed Hunyadi. In 1456, Vlad III went to