Dracula's origin

Dracula, a real person in history, whose full name (in Romanian) was Vlad, Vlad Tepes Dracula. Vlad is just one of his nicknames. Vlad was born in 1431 in today’s Romania. At that time, the emerging Ottoman Empire captured Constantinople, coveting Europe. They ware regarded as the enemy of the Christians. According to historical records, in 1442 Vlad and his younger brother were sent to the capital of Ottoman Constantinople as hostages for six years. 

During this period, Vlad suffered not only because of the hostile environment, but also because of the news saying that his father and brother had been assassinated by renegade aristocrats. At the age of seventeen, with the support of the Turkish Sultan, Vlad led the army hit back and retook Walachia. He seized the power back and after that the first thing he did was to purge dissidents relentlessly. He used a variety of draconian treatments of offenders to straighten his rule, the most famous one is the puncture punishment. To counter the powerful Ottoman, and to protect the weak Romania, Duke Vlad did not hesitate to violate a taboo. 

Many complex primitive beliefs were popularity with those Germans when whom were still in the forest in Eastern Europe as some savage tribes. There was one specific belief referred to a worship of wolves and the moon, according to legend it can gain strength from wolves. Believers obtained blessing could get great strength and would be covered with thick hair. They could also grow facially teared to deformation. They were like ferocious and bloodthirsty beasts, losing self-control and etc. All this was because of the influence of tidal action under full moon. Old Believers bit through the new believers to "share" this blessing. As can be seen, although the original inefficient was difficult to control, this native belief in Eastern Europe to the wolf has a very close features as vampires.

But with the persecution and slander by the Christians, this belief at that time was on the verge of extinction, left a so-called "werewolf" demonized legend. During the suppression of pagans, Duke Vlad first came into contact with this "werewolf" belief. Coupled with the record from the Catholic Church on the ancient enemy, and his impressions of the ancient literature at the time when he was as a hostage in Turkey, he restored the rite of human vampire and become a vampire in the modern sense of history first.