Thursday, October 25, 2012

HUNGARIAN STEREOTYPES : WE ALL HAVE A LITTLE DRACULA (VLAD THE IMPALER) IN OUR PSYCHE

(Does this man look like your cousin?)

This stereotype is kind of funny if you think about it. It means that we have within us a Barbaric aspect, a Dark Side.

OK, so Vlad the Impaler was the "real Dracula" sort of. He was Barbaric by today's standards because he cut off the heads of his enemies and impaled them on stakes but didn't they do that more recently in Cambodia? LINKING TO HIS TRUE STORY ON THIS Castle Of Spirits site!

"Vlad the Impaler -Tepes (pronounced tzse-pesh) was born in the town of Sighisoara in Transylvania (now known as northern Romania) in 1431 and later ruled the area of Southern Romania known as Wallachia. His father was Vlad Dracul who was a knight in the Order of the Dragon which was a union of central and Eastern European rulers who were a tad worried about the rising Ottoman empire."