How did Dracula become the world's most famous vampire? - Stanley Stepanic

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    Over a hundred years after his creator was laid to rest, Dracula lives on as the most famous vampire in history. But this Transylvanian noble - neither the first fictional vampire, nor the most popular of his time - may have remained buried in obscurity if not for a twist of fate. Stanley Stepanic explains how a critical copyright battle catapulted Bram Stoker’s character into literary renown.
    Lesson by Stanley Stepanic, animation by Phuong Mai NGUYEN.

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  • @yassfishy
    @yassfishy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6608

    I love how his mom just tells a bunch of horror stories to a 7 yr old

    • @rovli816
      @rovli816 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      It should be pg16+

    • @bioman1hazard607
      @bioman1hazard607 5 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      My gram let us watch r rated films in the 90s when we were 8 like Friday the 13 and nightmare on elmstreet, best childhood ever

    • @swirlandtwirl5417
      @swirlandtwirl5417 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      That story tellings horror exist too in asian countries specially when there were no electricity, for entertainment.

    • @jordanloux3883
      @jordanloux3883 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Not just fantasy. REAL ACCOUNTS of plagues wiping out whole cities.

    • @EvanOM
      @EvanOM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Well Irish people still do it today my mam does it

  • @fatimesaiti402
    @fatimesaiti402 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5790

    "Mother,can you tell me a bed-time story?"
    "-Sure!When I was your age,people were vomiting and bleeding and dying and being buried alive.Then,they'd wake up and drink the blood of other people!How cool is that?"

    • @Rum598
      @Rum598 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Oooo spoopy

    • @seaworld9036
      @seaworld9036 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Wow! That’s a beautiful story

    • @ekasteviajulip6917
      @ekasteviajulip6917 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      ' when i was your age' ouh.....that is so cool

    • @micky57
      @micky57 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      That's so cool mother! Can dis continue?

    • @16Bit-Jafu
      @16Bit-Jafu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That is cool

  • @zeetergiest
    @zeetergiest 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5658

    During my childhood I used to think that Transylvania and Pennsylvania were both the same.

    • @quxoyrukoy5416
      @quxoyrukoy5416 4 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      Well being a child when I was 4 to 6 I thought the same

    • @cindeng6624
      @cindeng6624 4 ปีที่แล้ว +299

      When I was a kid, I thought Transylvania was only a fictional name of a hotel for ghosts/creatures. You know, the animation Hotel Transylvania😅.. So, it is only now I learnerd that there is really a country named Transylvania😅...

    • @db4ch
      @db4ch 4 ปีที่แล้ว +200

      @@cindeng6624 Transylvania isn't a country.It is part of Romania.Romania on the other hand is a country.

    • @justfatemaz.4427
      @justfatemaz.4427 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Ganesh Teja Lol same

    • @quxoyrukoy5416
      @quxoyrukoy5416 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@cindeng6624 u mean the movies hotel transylvania hotel transylvania 2 and 3

  • @chessforfun5394
    @chessforfun5394 4 ปีที่แล้ว +597

    Ted ed: *answers questions I did not knew I had*

  • @eatornator-ox2dx
    @eatornator-ox2dx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2720

    everyone asks who's dracula,
    but no-one asks how's dracula.

    • @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum
      @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      dracular???? hi there greetings th-cam.com/video/hk7Bksr1_88/w-d-xo.html

    • @karthikramanan8221
      @karthikramanan8221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      Drax be like : ill do u one better , why is dracula

    • @memeverse1672
      @memeverse1672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@karthikramanan8221 😂😂

    • @angonkatwang
      @angonkatwang 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Facts :(

    • @iamnode2088
      @iamnode2088 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      i will give something better : where is dracula

  • @BalkanPizza
    @BalkanPizza 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7126

    It always surprises me how many people don't know Transylvania is in Romania btw

    • @Reena2784
      @Reena2784 7 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Same

    • @daksh8747
      @daksh8747 7 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Melissa Dobrea I actually haven't met anyone like that

    • @pppriest3206
      @pppriest3206 7 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      I know its sad i am romanian

    • @ShizL
      @ShizL 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Melissa Dobre lol really?

    • @nottarun
      @nottarun 7 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      ShizL ironic you're claiming yourself as smart when you can barely spell

  • @miercat610
    @miercat610 7 ปีที่แล้ว +269

    There is a class in University of Virginia, called Dracula. It uses Dracula as an entry point that introduces the European myths, lures, cultures, and American pop culture. As an international student, I love this class a lot!

    • @DeafSparrow
      @DeafSparrow 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Good because I wrote this video.

    • @kedandunn
      @kedandunn ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That sounds awesome

  • @MrHarsh3600
    @MrHarsh3600 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3408

    100 years from now Ted Ed will be making a video about Twilight and it's characters.

  • @luuchoo93
    @luuchoo93 4 ปีที่แล้ว +601

    How did such a great figure, based on centuries of history and legends, end up in the Twilight saga?

    • @metal_monocle7334
      @metal_monocle7334 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      He's not.

    • @imsickoflifeanditstactics5063
      @imsickoflifeanditstactics5063 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Uhh..isn't that Edward Cullen? Not Dracula.

    • @Princyyy
      @Princyyy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@crazycasbahjive Damn!!!!!

    • @queendilara1474
      @queendilara1474 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@crazycasbahjive or go to a highschool and got in a relationship with a 17 year old😂

    • @alyenTry
      @alyenTry 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I'm thinking the same too😭 they now become poor plot on wattpad

  • @m.magarwal5287
    @m.magarwal5287 4 ปีที่แล้ว +720

    Imagine being poor seven-year-old Bram Stoker
    “Mom...I don’t feel so good.”
    “Awwwww, do you wan to hear a story?”
    “Sure!”
    “When I was young, there was a terrible disease, killing many, many people, and we had to bury others alive! Also, there’re some thingies called vampires or something who wake up after dying and become carnivourous bloodthirsty monsters and kill everyone in our town I think. Goodnight!”

    • @cocainebarbiee_
      @cocainebarbiee_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Personally i loved my mom telling me horror stories when i was little 🥰

    • @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum
      @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      dracular???? hi there greetings th-cam.com/video/hk7Bksr1_88/w-d-xo.html

    • @Olive-ey1cc
      @Olive-ey1cc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ummmmm goodnight?

    • @ToVoMo
      @ToVoMo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I highly doubt he disliked those moments, I think most children at young age would like to hear horror, shocking stories over wholesome, happy sappy ones

  • @ivanstanojevic964
    @ivanstanojevic964 7 ปีที่แล้ว +531

    Fun fact: The "vampire" the Austrian doctor was supposed to exam was Sava Savanovic, a local celebrity in a Serbian village, who everybody feared. He disproved it and explained the case to Austrians, but the Serbs remained firm in the belief that Sava rises every month. His mill (the mill is an ominous symbol in Serbian folklore on its own) is still avoided by the villagers to this day. It is also a tourist attraction, by day of course

    • @nikolajekovic9431
      @nikolajekovic9431 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Ja ne bih tamo isao ni da mi plate! Ma ne bi isao ni da mi zaprete puskom!

    • @bluecat299
      @bluecat299 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I wish I could go there and see why is everyone so scared.

    • @ivanstanojevic964
      @ivanstanojevic964 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@bluecat299 mills are built in remote location, usually outside the village. These locations are scary enough on their own at night, but you also gotta factor in a huge number of stories about mills being cursed. Also, Sava's mill is located in a thick forest, which doesn't help

    • @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum
      @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      dracular???? hi there greetings th-cam.com/video/hk7Bksr1_88/w-d-xo.html

    • @danielchoritz1903
      @danielchoritz1903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      a strong believe and a relict bound to it are sometimes more then just a story.

  • @razvan1074
    @razvan1074 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1299

    hello from Transilvania, Romania

  • @marimarcalbero7435
    @marimarcalbero7435 6 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    i love how books lives on even when the writer dies, its like we leave a piece of us that people accross places and time will see.

  • @Ghost_with_Bow
    @Ghost_with_Bow 6 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    1:37 that lady is just 300% done

  • @Sciencedoneright
    @Sciencedoneright 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    1:37 I just love how she is annoyed

  • @prithviganeais7844
    @prithviganeais7844 7 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    These animations make any topic more interesting than it was before. Always learning something new! Who else agrees?

  • @tankdempsey1818
    @tankdempsey1818 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2111

    Does anyone else only watch this whole channel just for this guys voice?

  • @witchbiss4038
    @witchbiss4038 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Mother telling Horror Stories and then says *Good night*
    Her child: IT AINT A GOOD NIGHT!!

  • @6c12himanirawat5
    @6c12himanirawat5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    'I'm somewhat of a celebrity myself'
    - Dracula

  • @nickhighland799
    @nickhighland799 7 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    lol, idk if that's a good bedtimes story "when i was a little girl the village had an outbreak of cholera, it was so bad that we had to bury people alive in mass graves. g'night son, sweet dreams"

  • @johnmcdonald6742
    @johnmcdonald6742 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1249

    You forgot to mention that Dracula is a public domain novel, meaning anyone can make their own adaptation of it.

    • @daksh8747
      @daksh8747 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      John McDonald I'm not understanding how telling that Is neccessary.

    • @johnmcdonald6742
      @johnmcdonald6742 7 ปีที่แล้ว +173

      Because Dracula's fame came from the fact that anyone can make their own adaptation of it. That's why there's so many versions of him in media.

    • @henry1690
      @henry1690 7 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      You do have a good point, and I do think that it would be important to mention that in the video (considering that Florence Stoker is dead and Bram Stoker's great grand-nephew Dacre Stoker was unable to keep creative control of the property for very long). However, Nosferatu began bringing the story into the public eye while the Bela Lugosi version (the first authorized film version of Dracula) was the film that catapulted Dracula into mainstream media, with the novel going into the public domain expanding off of the fame set by the film versions (particularly from Lugosi, whom everyone likes to mimic with his Hungarian accent and widow's peak). Without them, I don't think Dracula would have the fame he now has today, and thus would we not have Christopher Lee and Gary Oldman to carry the torch.

    • @Fireluv500
      @Fireluv500 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Henry Forbes Agreed!

    • @daksh8747
      @daksh8747 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A'ight

  • @ReplayTVchannel
    @ReplayTVchannel 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2591

    I bet no one knows that "Dracula" comes from "dracul" in romanian and in english means "the demon" :)

    • @lunateca33
      @lunateca33 6 ปีที่แล้ว +191

      The son of the dragon is the real meaning

    • @buymyshit2534
      @buymyshit2534 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Lmao as a romanian even i didn't thought about that

    • @Siegbert85
      @Siegbert85 6 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      It comes from dragon because his father was member of the Order of the Dragon, an order of Christian noblemen founded by Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund to combat the Turks. Draculea just meant "son of the dragon".

    • @Vertutame
      @Vertutame 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      he has son and his name is Travor

    • @GoodBoyElder
      @GoodBoyElder 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      CronoS you should've done your research before commenting like you know everything.

  • @zKampeR45
    @zKampeR45 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2073

    Transylvania is Romanian land. Fight me

    • @imverycreative5819
      @imverycreative5819 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      zKampeR lol

    • @Just_som_Ottur
      @Just_som_Ottur 7 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      And this is how you win-
      *takes out the ancient cards of Exodia: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn*

    • @xpohoconney6561
      @xpohoconney6561 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      zKampeR Ţepeş ftw

    • @CrashandTrash596
      @CrashandTrash596 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      It was part of Austro-Hungary until after the First World War

    • @Truewarlock
      @Truewarlock 7 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      @Jack McCall Yes it was. Also it was part of Dacian Empire before Austro-Hungary even existed, so...

  • @johnhotchkiss9842
    @johnhotchkiss9842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    Vlad the Impaler was known as Dracula and he was what the character was inspired by. Vlad was known for having a tower in his castle that was high up. On the ground below the tower he had spikes planted in the ground. He would take his enemies up to the top of the tower and push them over the edge to the spikes below killing them. Vlad was called Dracula because the translations stands for "Dragon". The current British royal family are actually distant relations of Vlad the Impaler.

    • @marafresi1202
      @marafresi1202 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In the Hotel Transylvania movie series vlad is Draculas dad

  • @sapphiresoul6655
    @sapphiresoul6655 4 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    they put on stone masks while cringing their British brother, shouting "I REJECT MY HUMANITY, JOJO!"

  • @teaneeded2763
    @teaneeded2763 7 ปีที่แล้ว +751

    1:36
    People, I'm dead already…this ain't gonna anything to me

  • @djordjelukic2359
    @djordjelukic2359 7 ปีที่แล้ว +480

    l am from Serbia and here vampires are a common thing

    • @heesingsia4634
      @heesingsia4634 7 ปีที่แล้ว +271

      Djordje Lukic we have those where I come from too. We call them politicians

    • @mark0yo874
      @mark0yo874 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Djordje Lukic gde si brate konačno malo pričaju o nama

    • @djordjelukic2359
      @djordjelukic2359 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Golden Stain who is this

    • @-fewkey-2362
      @-fewkey-2362 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Djordje Lukic cause of ww1

    • @whatever.1765
      @whatever.1765 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Hee Sing Sia LMFAO

  • @franktroise4386
    @franktroise4386 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I was thrilled to see someone finally say that Vlad Tepes was not the inspiration for Count Dracula. Stoker only copied the name "Dracula" from a document or book he used as research. It's like the canard that Bob Kane was the sole creator of Batman.

  • @iulia1147
    @iulia1147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I live in Transylvania and i went to the Dracula castle (yes,there is a castle where he "lived") and it was horror and amazing in the same time😟

  • @awkward-worm_9039
    @awkward-worm_9039 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Believe me that book is everything but scary, but the interactions between Jonathan and Dracula are so FUNNY AND CUTE

  • @김지영-f9k7m
    @김지영-f9k7m 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Ted ed: how did dracula become the most famous vampire?
    Me: how did anyone draw all this?

  • @airplanetowardsthesky3265
    @airplanetowardsthesky3265 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This guy was so cool to have as a professor. You could tell he was incredibly passionate about the topic. And I learned so much in his class

  • @healthystrongmuslim
    @healthystrongmuslim 7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    >vampire
    0:07 >100 years
    0:28 >Twist of Fate
    *KONO DIO DA*

  • @lofidarkfire8765
    @lofidarkfire8765 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This playlist reminded me of the first serious poem I had ever written; it was for the final project during my high school senior year drama class. I think this poem took me a weeks time, and a lot of walking to write haha.
    A softly tinted candy colored horizon, brings about the end to the first day in a long forever. A cool dawn breeze flows across the endless lakefront. As gulls playfully pass by, you hear a sound close to your heart, yet unrecognizable. You follow the narrow pier but reach its sudden end. Still the sound continues, haunting your every memory trying to recognize the tones of the benevolent falsetto. With tears beginning to swell, you leap into the open waters, and fight the storm of the ocean with no guide but the sweet serenade, drowning out even the crack of waves 20 feet tall. As you near, you begin to hear the faint sounds of the one who saved your life. Rather now this blissful sound has evolved into a bellowing melody of beautiful rhymes and utterance. And soon you learn the goodnight you heard, was the final product of 10,000 words.
    When can true bliss exist? When are we allowed to feel love with complete freedom? When is self-actualization a reality? The hollows of one’s mind may destroy these ideas before we can embrace them. Try as we may, failure and pain are a part of realizing these ideas, and those realties, fearfully may never come. But with withered realities and dreams comes hope. A hero, a warrior, an entity of love. A banner held high with morals of unmistakable value. A shield clashed with the iron clad of failure. And stripes of battles taken by victory. A sword dulled by the slashing of demons, only to be sharpened in preparation for what may be their last quarrel. At night both warrior and weak reflect on the dust settled and which star to follow. But where love is given in recur, its return is curtain. Those saved never forget, as those who fight may never fully understand.

  • @sixpomegranateseeds6893
    @sixpomegranateseeds6893 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Despite Dracula being the most famous vampire in history, most people don't really know his debut story. They don't know about the Harkers, or Van Helsing, or Lucy, or her boyfriends, and they're the ones who actually are the main characters of the story.

    • @kedandunn
      @kedandunn ปีที่แล้ว +1

      or, most importantly, the cowboy!

    • @clairefoley8662
      @clairefoley8662 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      For an adaptation that does all of these characters justice, I'd highly recommend the audio drama Re:Dracula, which tells the story chronologically and is adapted straight from the book. The casting is perfect, they do such a good job bringing the story to life!

  • @wlwcats5810
    @wlwcats5810 7 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    I like Carmilla's take on vampires where the vampire is a lesbian lol.

    • @Nino244
      @Nino244 7 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Rainbow Girl I scrolled for 3 centuries to find a comment about Carmilla. Thank you haha.
      *gay wink*

    • @sarmadusmani4792
      @sarmadusmani4792 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Rainbow Girl I found her story to be more enigmatic and eerie than that of Dracula.

    • @lilyl.6715
      @lilyl.6715 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      same, i searched the comments to see if anyone mentioned carmilla lmao

    • @Facade953
      @Facade953 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      wlw cats Carmilla=Twilight For Guys!😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

    • @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum
      @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      dracular???? hi there greetings th-cam.com/video/hk7Bksr1_88/w-d-xo.html

  • @yokatta-f
    @yokatta-f 7 ปีที่แล้ว +296

    I REJECT MY HUMANITY, JOJO!

    • @LagiohX3
      @LagiohX3 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Jaqen H'ghar is this a jojo reference?

    • @maplemaple1439
      @maplemaple1439 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Jaqen H'ghar DIO! YOU MONSTER! YOU GET AWAY FROM THAT WINDOW!

    • @theresetrashbag
      @theresetrashbag 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I knew someone would comment this lmaaao
      oh and:
      DIOOOOOO!!!

    • @ginta_san
      @ginta_san 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      DIOOOOO

    • @reikenator
      @reikenator 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      is this a muthefakin jojo refrence

  • @TickedOffPriest
    @TickedOffPriest 7 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    Once more we see horrors brought forth because of copyrights.

    • @anitasintimiXX
      @anitasintimiXX 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      TickedOff Priest what are other examples?

    • @TickedOffPriest
      @TickedOffPriest 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      anitasintimiXX Marvel and DC both own every version of the word "superhero" for the sole purpose of keeping smaller companies from using it.

    • @seagullspit6048
      @seagullspit6048 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Fine Brothers...

    • @astarahussein2458
      @astarahussein2458 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you catholic

    • @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum
      @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      dracular???? hi there greetings th-cam.com/video/hk7Bksr1_88/w-d-xo.html

  • @petrichorweather350
    @petrichorweather350 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I used to adore this stuff in elementary school, now the 2020 adaptation has revived my love for this

  • @esim-64
    @esim-64 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    1:40 This is the first time my country was in a video like this... i pissed myself when i heard "When Serbia"

    • @Zaire82
      @Zaire82 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm pretty sure I've heard Serbia come up a lot when it comes to folktale-inspired horror like this.

  • @sandrosuladze1484
    @sandrosuladze1484 7 ปีที่แล้ว +183

    "Hamilton" and "Broadway" in one video? Can't be coincidence.

  • @JustWasted3HoursHere
    @JustWasted3HoursHere 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I never knew that Bela Lugosi did Dracula on stage! I always learn something interesting in these TED-Ed talks. Thanks!

  • @charlesvillarba8288
    @charlesvillarba8288 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Musical Orchestra background gives me chills. Great job!

  • @reyanah
    @reyanah 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The art in this is gorgeous!

  • @autumnriver7525
    @autumnriver7525 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Stroker: Mommy, it's night time... I want a story.
    His mom: ... then people started bleeding and dying, then they... wake up and drink other people's BLOOD!

    • @yuriang_8050
      @yuriang_8050 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Stroker: Mom can you sing me a lullaby
      His mom:🎶oh scary,oh scary,scary night.vaaampires,ghoooouls,deeeemonss.Under your beedddd.
      Killing you softlyyyy oh softlyyyy until you dieee🎶

    • @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum
      @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      dracular???? hi there greetings th-cam.com/video/hk7Bksr1_88/w-d-xo.html

  • @chrisblogs5115
    @chrisblogs5115 7 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Perfect timing to post this. I just bought the book a few days ago :)

    • @chrisblogs5115
      @chrisblogs5115 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I prefer listening to them rather than reading them. But I love having a collection of the best/most famous horror books too, so I could not resist buying it.

  • @brielle7484
    @brielle7484 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I don't know man. I only thought dracula was another name for vampire-😭

    • @marilettak6782
      @marilettak6782 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same 😭😭😭

    • @krishellenberg5715
      @krishellenberg5715 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I thought that too for some time when I was younger lol

    • @sakshisuryawanshi648
      @sakshisuryawanshi648 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      For many years I thought the same 😂

  • @danialtello91
    @danialtello91 7 ปีที่แล้ว +373

    Dracula was one of the greatest enemies of the Muslim Ottoman State, he was not a vampire or fairy tale, rather he was a vicious crusader who fought against the army of Muhammad al-Fatih.

    • @daksh8747
      @daksh8747 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      John Wick hear!hear!

    • @mrgoat4176
      @mrgoat4176 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Watch the video till the end.

    • @RenzoinBenzo549
      @RenzoinBenzo549 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Re-watch from 3:09. You're correct about Vlad, but they state that the two are not the same.

    • @ProlePatrolMusic
      @ProlePatrolMusic 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      the turks wanted to take over romania, and vlad (dracula) fought viciously to attempt to protect christianity and end the turks. without him, it is likely much more of europe would have been taken over by the ottoman

    • @danialtello91
      @danialtello91 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      that's why he had a real name ' VLAD the Impaler', he will impale the turks whole body from their butt into their mouth and put it on the ground while the ottomans trying to hunt VLAD down.

  • @guillermorojasc
    @guillermorojasc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    For more reference of moder vampires and what inspired them. I recommend *The Bride of Corinth* . A german poem from Goethe that inspired both Carmila and Dracula. Not so much for *The Vampire which is a continuation of Gordon Byron shor tales, but the poem is one of the earliest takes on moderm vampires.

  • @blakecromley3583
    @blakecromley3583 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Imagine Marvel's Blade taking him on, or better yet, Mobius.

  • @TheGreatestCommenter
    @TheGreatestCommenter 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I heard of Nosferatu from Spongebob, and thought that he looked like Dracula. Now I know that it's no coincidence. The part about people doing stuff to get rid of vampires, and the physician putting an end to the myth I already knew that, but the rest was just wow

  • @SubhankarKnight
    @SubhankarKnight 7 ปีที่แล้ว +456

    Dracula: the king of vampires

  • @lil_weasel219
    @lil_weasel219 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Jure Grando Alilović (1579-1656) was probably the first real person described as a vampire in historical records, he was from Croatia's region of Istria

  • @talatnoor5904
    @talatnoor5904 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Kid : Mom tell me a bedtime story .
    Mom : Ok sweetheart * starts telling a horror story *

  • @Sun.Shine-
    @Sun.Shine- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I think we all have some horror stories about Covid 19 for generations to come, right? 😆

    • @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum
      @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @ThomasG_Nikolaj
      @ThomasG_Nikolaj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like when they tried to force the vaccine

    • @mautheprufstift4630
      @mautheprufstift4630 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ThomasG_Nikolaj Bro that vaccine is to protect other people??

    • @ThomasG_Nikolaj
      @ThomasG_Nikolaj 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mautheprufstift4630 'my medicine won't work unless you take yours too' bro cmon it either works or it doesn't. Why do other people need to get it to protect you? Do you have yours?

  • @mr.c5125
    @mr.c5125 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This narrator gives me ASMR. More of him, please...

  • @ineedsleep5394
    @ineedsleep5394 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Me: watches these videos when im bored because they are very cool
    My family: are they ok-

  • @cretinousjester3475
    @cretinousjester3475 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dracula was the quintisential movie star/celebrity vampire. The only one that I can think of that comes close to making the same impact would be Lestat and he still falls short. It wasn't just him having a novel at his back to generate the fame but the character himself was and still is- one of the most fascinating ever created.
    Vampires are immortal but Dracula is eternal.

    • @Stickers2Go
      @Stickers2Go 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Mary Shellys Frankenstein is huge too. Universal made Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff and that too was a success which spawned the hundreds of other movies.

  • @talonviperchef4048
    @talonviperchef4048 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wait what?! I saw this video on suggestion and I was like "dude there is no way there's anything in the vid that I didn't know, cuz my professor during '13 summer in that class Dracula pretty much got EVERYTHING you need to know about vampire covered". And once I clicked in it, it's the same dude! I love you, Professor Stepanic!

  • @endomorphfitness2840
    @endomorphfitness2840 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Honestly this channel helped me learn more than in school.

  • @Zeratul187
    @Zeratul187 7 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    what???.....Bram stoker as kid was in bed and his mother told him stories of outbreak of cholerae and Mass graves and people being buried alive........😮😮😮

  • @NessieAndrew
    @NessieAndrew 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I actually live in Transylvania.

  • @andjela6791
    @andjela6791 7 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    I'm from Serbia!!!!!

    • @NessieAndrew
      @NessieAndrew 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      AnaTheKat I'm from Romania!

    • @jaiskreno
      @jaiskreno 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      HAhahah da da stara šala HAhhaa

    • @AoiRyou
      @AoiRyou 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      AnaTheKat OMG TA SLIKA AHH YOI 💙

    • @andjela6791
      @andjela6791 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Blue_Meifwa Moon ❤

    • @alexhaggerty39
      @alexhaggerty39 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      where in serbia do you live ana

  • @lillinablue
    @lillinablue 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think 1897 Dracula By Bram Stoker is the most celebrated tale about vampires.
    A lot of movies are based on this masterpiece.

  • @theking-nz1ut
    @theking-nz1ut 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Every time you think of a Vampire.....you think of Count Dracula.

  • @brindade2004
    @brindade2004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Dracula has been inspired from stories of Vlad the impaler and Lady Elizabeth Bathory also known as Blood Countess.

  • @y2kmedia118
    @y2kmedia118 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So I'm the only one here before Netflix's Dracula?
    Actually, I'm literally the only one excited for that potential masterpiece

    • @SHZpai
      @SHZpai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Y2K Media nah I’m here bc of that

  • @ayaan3762
    @ayaan3762 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1:36 her facial expression says it all🤣🤣

  • @hunterofdarkness8329
    @hunterofdarkness8329 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Short answer: Dracula was curious of the stone Mask and that when he wore it and spilled it with blood he became a Vampire

  • @LannasMissingLink
    @LannasMissingLink 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Bram Stoker festival in Dublin is awesome! Definitely worth a visit

  • @ShizL
    @ShizL 7 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Fun fact: The book was a whole misunderstanding .Vlad Țepeş actually comes from Walachya.

    • @stefanivanov8914
      @stefanivanov8914 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bram Stoker was bad informed.
      But all people know that Dracula comes from Transylvania. All mass-media promovate this lie.

    • @stefanivanov8914
      @stefanivanov8914 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And then...Wallahia and Transylvania are in Romania.

    • @marius4iasi
      @marius4iasi 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Dracula is a fictional character, he may come from wherever the author wants him to come. Stoker was not bad informed, he did read about Vlad the Impaler, and used his story as background, but he chose to place him in Transylvania so that he would make a whole backstory that Dracula was descended of the ruthless Attila the Hun through the Székelys. None of this makes sense in real life, but he was not interested in getting the facts right, he wanted to create a work of fiction which would scare the shit out of people. So saying that the book was misunderstood, or that Stoker was bad informed makes no real sense, since Stoker did not want to write history, he wanted to create mythology.

    • @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum
      @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @alasterkenway9773
    @alasterkenway9773 7 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    Last time i came this early America was still a colony.

    • @fandyus4125
      @fandyus4125 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      And you weren't a weeb fishing for likes back then.

    • @deathbridged3361
      @deathbridged3361 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought you meant something else by came early XD

    • @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum
      @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      dracular???? hi there greetings th-cam.com/video/hk7Bksr1_88/w-d-xo.html

  • @ethanloi9979
    @ethanloi9979 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I heard that there was a king in 15th-16th century, who titled himself Dracul, meaning king in a way. He had a son who was named Dracula, and he suffered many gruesome experiences like seeing his brother being slaughtered. Dracula obviously became king and he killed many people and many say he had a "thirst" for blood. Eventually it adapted to other countries.

    • @cristalrojas2609
      @cristalrojas2609 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You mean Vlad Dracul I(king) and his son Vlad Drácula II "The empalator" (count).

    • @biracristian2808
      @biracristian2808 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cristalrojas2609 "empalator"what?where are you from?

  • @fammybai8492
    @fammybai8492 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was uploaded on my birthday.

  • @Nawwar1980
    @Nawwar1980 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As metaphor, there is another branch of Dracula family live in the Buckingham Palace, and continue to delude the mind of it's nearly entire citizen.

  • @jovanbojcic8017
    @jovanbojcic8017 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    VAmpires originated from Serbia and Vampir is a serbian word that spread trough the world :P

    • @AS-mo9sh
      @AS-mo9sh 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fenectio slavic, you mean. in many slavic languages, its also "vampir"

    • @jovanbojcic8017
      @jovanbojcic8017 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Jedwig lamb yes but first it beggan in serbia with our vampires one of the most popular is Sava Sevanovic
      then it quickly spread trough rest of europe

    • @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum
      @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @AlexandruGeorgescu26
    @AlexandruGeorgescu26 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    No words about strigoi ??? WTF ! No words about DRACULA NOVEL as a propaganda by the austro-hungarian ? In Romanian mythology, strigoi (English: striga, poltergeist)[1]
    are the troubled spirits of the dead rising from the grave. Some
    strigoi can be living people with certain magical properties. Some of
    the properties of the strigoi include: the ability to transform into an animal, invisibility, and the propensity to drain the vitality of victims via blood loss. Strigoi are also known as vampires.

    • @Claudiu_rdc
      @Claudiu_rdc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      strigoi are more like zombie creatures, not vampires. In romania we don t have classic vampires.

    • @СашаВагић
      @СашаВагић 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Vampir" is Serbian word distributed through Europe by Austrian Doctors who investigated first historical case of vampir in Serbia,Book doesn't have anything with real history,Romania is connected with vampires only because of Dracula book that is not Historical document but fantasy novel.
      Fun fact: The "vampire" the Austrian doctor was supposed to exam was Sava Savanovic, a local celebrity in a Serbian village, who everybody feared. He disproved it and explained the case to Austrians, but the Serbs remained firm in the belief that Sava rises every month. His mill (the mill is an ominous symbol in Serbian folklore on its own) is still avoided by the villagers to this day. It is also a tourist attraction, by day of course

    • @thenablade858
      @thenablade858 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The video is only six minutes. Bram Stoker was Anglo-Irish, so I don’t see how Dracula could be Austro-Hungarian propaganda. He never even went to Romania. One can not discuss all vampire folklore in six minutes.

  • @pyroplay7436
    @pyroplay7436 7 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    We Serbs have taken a lot words from English, but we gave them vampire, so we are eaven. 😉

    • @davidseriosuljoaca3960
      @davidseriosuljoaca3960 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Romania actually gave vampiers.

    • @СашаВагић
      @СашаВагић 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      "Vampir" is Serbian word distributed through Europe by Austrian Doctors who investigated first historical case of vampir in Serbia,Book doesn't have anything with real history,Romania is connected with vampires only because of Dracula book that is not Historical document but fantasy novel.
      Fun fact: The "vampire" the Austrian doctor was supposed to exam was Sava Savanovic, a local celebrity in a Serbian village, who everybody feared. He disproved it and explained the case to Austrians, but the Serbs remained firm in the belief that Sava rises every month. His mill (the mill is an ominous symbol in Serbian folklore on its own) is still avoided by the villagers to this day. It is also a tourist attraction, by day of course

    • @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum
      @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      dracular???? hi there greetings th-cam.com/video/hk7Bksr1_88/w-d-xo.html

  • @dutu5124
    @dutu5124 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fun fact:The real name is Vlad Țepes not Vlad Dracula,his father was Vlad Dracula in case you didn't know,cool video btw

    • @PeterKuypers
      @PeterKuypers 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      His father was Vlad II called 'Dracul' which means dragon, his son Vlad III was called Dracula which means son of the dragon. Tepes is a nickname and means 'the impaler'.

  • @Frux.
    @Frux. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That intro is stuck in my head

  • @alexandrasinca4994
    @alexandrasinca4994 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Dracula was an actual pain in the neck for the Ottoman Empire...😂👌🏻

  • @rad9511
    @rad9511 7 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    im a romanian just saying

    • @oddsock3254
      @oddsock3254 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      bootleg internet so are millions of others

    • @yxcvbnmyxcvbnm9353
      @yxcvbnmyxcvbnm9353 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Cathal the psycho let him be happy, everyother time they just get called thieves

    • @iancuPotcoava24
      @iancuPotcoava24 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Spicy Plumbob Yes, because people are not smart enough to make the difference between Romanians and Gypsies. I guess you don't, aswell?

    • @marmutamagica8822
      @marmutamagica8822 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am sunt romn

    • @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum
      @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      hi there greetings th-cam.com/video/hk7Bksr1_88/w-d-xo.html dracular????

  • @mcmewsen
    @mcmewsen หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Well, let's start with the twenty thousand people you impaled!"
    "We WERE pretty mad at Dad that day."

  • @cauliflower4990
    @cauliflower4990 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So glad u mentioned Serbia lot of people just dump the fact that "vampir" is a serbian word. Also greetings from Serbia~💕

  • @Aron-zr1br
    @Aron-zr1br 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Always thought Bram Stokers book was a let down, nice to see I have history on my side. Sheridan Le Fanus Carmilla is a must read however:)

    • @hephaestus9901
      @hephaestus9901 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because all popular things are good and all good things become popular.

  • @steampoweredpixel
    @steampoweredpixel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember Dacre Stoker (Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew) kept telling us at his booksigning a year ago that he was 99.9% convinced that Bram Stoker's "mysterious illness" was in fact asthma, because he has it, his son has it, and Bram Stoker's great-grandson has it. It ran in his family.

    • @prtibha.prateebha5303
      @prtibha.prateebha5303 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am a real vampire

    • @DeafSparrow
      @DeafSparrow 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah he told me this story a few years ago and it's definitely the best argument that's ever been made about his illness.

  • @senortenpiedad8515
    @senortenpiedad8515 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dr. Van Sweeten was the one who made the studies against the rumors of vampires terrorizing the cities, Bram Stoker made the character as Van Helsing.

  • @barbarajackson4006
    @barbarajackson4006 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ted Ed this my first time on your channel but im enjoying your stories

  • @siramea
    @siramea 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    There is a suggestion the Bram Stocker adapted the name “Dracula” from the Irish phrase “droch fhola“, (pronounced druck ulla) meaning “bad blood” though some people maintain its just a coincidence that is sounds similar to Dracul. I think its probable that both are true

    • @DeafSparrow
      @DeafSparrow 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No, we know for a fact he changed his character's name to Dracula after he came across the word in a book.

  • @Reena2784
    @Reena2784 7 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    First Romanian here?

    • @adrianneagoe3652
      @adrianneagoe3652 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probabil

    • @cosmintrandafir146
      @cosmintrandafir146 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nu stiu.

    • @stellar783
      @stellar783 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Adina S. Aaaah! That's a YOI picture, isn't it~
      Si da, poate, dar cu siguranta nu esti singura ;)

    • @alexfunnyworks597
      @alexfunnyworks597 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Adina S. poate

    • @Reena2784
      @Reena2784 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      STELLAR!​​ Yup, it's an YOI picture.
      Si e clar ca nu-s singura :)))

  • @NoxHowl
    @NoxHowl 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    How cool it would have been if in the end, Dracula woke up and jump scare us hahaha

  • @Wet_Sandwich
    @Wet_Sandwich 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Ore wa ningen wo yameru zo, Jojo!"
    -Vlad

  • @Kinobambino
    @Kinobambino 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your voice was very easy and entertaining to listen to. As Well a the imagery. Fantastic video

  • @SickMLion
    @SickMLion 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    the art in this was beautiful!!

  • @rafaelmarin4178
    @rafaelmarin4178 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I AM FROM ROMANIA AND DRACULA IS ACTUALY VLAD ȚEPEȘ A

    • @NicolNicole-im8lw
      @NicolNicole-im8lw 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rafael Marin ROMÂNIA FOR EVERRRRRRRRR

    • @warbler1984
      @warbler1984 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      is your keyboard broken?

    • @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum
      @asashoryuLapisphilosophorum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      hi there greetings th-cam.com/video/hk7Bksr1_88/w-d-xo.html dracular???? 1

  • @mollietenpenny4093
    @mollietenpenny4093 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can you do a video on George Orwell's book Animal Farm?

  • @meenukushwah3363
    @meenukushwah3363 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Netscape gold touched my heart

  • @ni_ki_00
    @ni_ki_00 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1:47 the map looks like a heels haha 😂😂

  • @maxlupumoldovean4807
    @maxlupumoldovean4807 7 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    By the way Romania is not slavic!

    • @89moonboy
      @89moonboy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Nowhere in the video did they claim that. They just said that the modern interpretations of vampires originated among the Slavs.

    • @ratcudeniscristian7661
      @ratcudeniscristian7661 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      at that time its was a little!

    • @marmutamagica8822
      @marmutamagica8822 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sunt romn si 40% romni stiu rusa

    • @aleksandarvil5718
      @aleksandarvil5718 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Word "vampire" is only serbian word in all main global languages

    • @Claudiu_rdc
      @Claudiu_rdc 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@89moonboy they show a map with slavic europe and Romania is there included....lol

  • @jelenagunnarsen2043
    @jelenagunnarsen2043 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1:41 Serbia?I am from Serbia