The Legend of Dracula The superstitious people of Transylvania strongly believe in supernatural creatures they call “Strigoi”. Strigoi are the troubled souls of the dead rising from the grave. They can be living people with certain magical properties. Some of these properties include: the ability to transform into an animal, invisibility, and the ability to drain the vitality of victims via blood loss. The residents of Transylvania are known to take extra good care of their weakening relatives. They would never put demented granny into a nursery home. Why?Because they are convinced that ifthey do- and granny doesn’t like the food or you didn’t visit as much as she wanted, she will be coming back from the grave as a Vampire or a freaking Werewolf to chew your face off. For most of us that seems a little far-fetched, but for them it’s so serious that it’s an accepted tradition to visit the cemetery and drive a stake through your deceased relatives as a preventive. The goal is to drive the nail all the way through the coffin into the ground as according to legend, the corpse has to be nailed in the earth to lift the curse. Not everyone is susceptible to turning into a Strigori but mythology states; a person who lived a life of sin is cursed to wander the earth as an undead creature of the night. Of course that would make Vladimir a prettygood candidate. As you can imagine, people have tried to stake him before he could return from the dead. Problem however was that his grave was empty, except for some animal bones. Hisbody has never been discovered… Some say that Strigoi always return to the place where they have their best memories -and taking into account his bizarre pleasure from impaling people, they are convinced that Hunyad Castle is now the home of Dracul’sspirit. Mediums say there is an extremely powerful evil presence that resides here and which has manifested itself in every nook and cranny of the Castle. Numerous exorcist rituals have taken place here- but the dark powers of the castle are too strong to banish- or even do battle with, according to Gypsy witches who took place in these rituals. Yup… definitely a place, I don’t want to spend the night.
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