I can help with a few answers to your questions/comments.
On Jul 9, 12:01 pm, "Tana's Servant"
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> wrote:
> The first reference that I have to hand dates vampirism back to 1672
"the
> Giure Grando: Male peasant, Khring, Istria" source was quoted as being
> Valvassor: Ehre des Herzogtum Krains. (from the book Vampyres by
> Christopher Frayling)
If you're trying to answer the unanswerable question of identifying
the first vampire, you will have to define what you mean by "vampire."
Vampiric beings were known as far back as ancient Sumer (2500 BCE).
> In 1930 Universal American Films got the rights to it, with Bela Lugosi
> playing the lead ...
The 1931 "Dracula" movie was based on a play by Hamilton Deane & John
Balderstone who adapted it from Stoker's novel. I don't know whether
or not they had rights or even if rights were necessary owing to it
being a stageplay and not a movie. The play opened on Broadway in
1927, was a success, and starred a tall, handsome Hungarian who
learned his English lines phonetically. Yes, it was the same Bela
Lugosi who would later play the movie Dracula in Tod Browning's
production.
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> > My question: Are all of these like different takes on Dracula? Was
> > Vlad from the first story really only named Dracula because Stoker saw
> > the name in an article or is Vlad in reality based in others writings.
Stoker kept copious writing notes, which are housed in the Rosenbach
Museum in Philadelphia. From these notes (which I have seen), Dracula
scholars have been able to deduce that the only thing Stoker knew
about Vlad Tepes was taken from a book by William Wilkinson titled
_An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia_ (1820).
In this book there was a short section about a 15th century Wallachian
voivode [prince/warlord] named Dracula who crossed the Danube River
and fought against the Turks. The excerpt contains very little
information about Dracula (there is no reference to his name being
Vlad, and nothing about his impalements and other atrocities); in
fact, Wilkinson confuses Dracula and his father (whom we know as Vlad
Dracul). But Wilkinson does add a footnote indicating that "Dracula in
the Wallachian language means devil." It is this footnote that Stoker
copied into his Notes for Dracula. Until he found that name, in fact,
he was going to call his vampire Count Wampyr.
> > Isn't Vampirism ( is that a word) or the "y" spelling of it, way older
> > then Stokers writing the book?
"Vampyre" was the way 18th century English writers and poets referred
to vampires. It may have been taken from the German "Vampyr" or
"Wampyr", but in France it was spelled "vampire."
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