• DosDude👾@retrolemmy.com
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    1 year ago

    His father was in the order of the dragon. So he was Vlad Dracul, or Vlad the dragon. Vlad is the son of Dracul: Dracula or Vlad the son of the dragon. So basically the vampire is just the son of a dragon, which is pretty metal, but not as metal as the actual dragon.

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      1 year ago

      It is a very metal title, and it’s no wonder Bram Stoker chose it as the name of his character.

      I still maintain that vampires = rabies, though.

      • Biting - the main way rabies is transmitted
      • Weak to holy water - rabies causes hydrophobia
      • Snarling faces - rabies causes muscles to tighten, dogs who have rabies are very snarly
      • Transforms into bats, wolves, etc - rabies is often spread by these animals
      • Feeds on livestock - many “prey” animals primarily exhibit the paralytic form of rabies
      • No reflection - in the past, a person was not considered rabid if they could look at their own reflection

      Give me any other vampire trope, I think I can relate it to rabies.

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      I know you watched the same behind the bastards episode… But basically all of Romania, the people behind these, used it as the devil meaning. Yes the word might have medieval origins, but what Robert overlooked is when the stories actually began being formed.

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        Yes the word might have medieval origins, but what Robert overlooked is when the stories actually began being formed.

        Yes exactly! But at least he did mention rabies, and Balkan legends involving werewolves, even if only in passing.

        Tbh I think there are so many facets to the “vampire” and associated legends that anyone can be forgiven for not comprehensively covering all of them - particularly with how they’ve been blended together over the last century or so. The podcast is meant to be about specific bastard people, after all.