After an eight-year struggle, Vlad again claimed the voivodate. Vlad the Impaler Vlad the Impaler, German woodcut by Ambrosius Huber, 1499.(more) It was during this period of rule that he committed the atrocities for which he was best known. His penchant for impaling his enemies on stakes...
Impalement is a gruesome and cruel death. Vlad the Impaler is known for impaling over 20,000 people. It is thought that Vlad the Impaler was the inspiration for the character Dracula in Bram Stoker's fictional horror novel, Dracula, published in 1897....
Also, he cut off the breasts of the women and forced their husbands to eat them. Finally, he impaled the captured prisoners. His method of impaling was to force the victim to sit on a sharp and thick pole which was then lifted upright with the victim slowly sliding down by his own wei...
who intermittently ruled an area of the Balkans called Wallachia in the mid 15thcentury. He was also called by the names Vlad III, Vlad Dracula and Vlad the Impaler. The word Tepes stands for "impaler" and was so coined because of
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Vlad believed out of all people his lifelong, childhood friend he had known longer than Elisabetha, Leon, would understand him. But when that wasn't the case, he ordered Death to finish Leon off, and he transformed into a bat and flew away. The two would never meet again. Vlad went...
(the Impaler) was also known as Vlad Draculea (Dracul - the devil) because he was a member of the Dragon Order which had as a sign, a dragon. In the eyes of the simple villages, the dragon sign represented the devil. The simple village people then gave him this nickname - the Devil...
Dracula’s proclivity for subjugating military challengers by impaling them upright on wooden stakes; skinning alive promiscuous women as a lesson to those who would abandon family values, and nailing hats to the heads of visiting dignitaries who failed to doff them in a proper show of respect....