Yes, I am Romanian. I live in Romania, Prahova county, town of Ploiești. I grew up in Transylvania, near Bran, in the village of Moeciu.
In Romanian mythology, strigoi (English: poltergeist) are the troubled souls 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 immortal vampires.
The so called home of Dracula, Bran Castle (Romanian: Castelul Bran; German: Törzburg; Hungarian: Törcsvár), situated near Bran and in the immediate vicinity of Braşov, is a national monument and landmark in Romania. The fortress is situated on the border between Transylvania and Wallachia, on DN73. Commonly known as "Dracula's Castle" (although it is one among several locations linked to the Dracula legend, including Poenari Castle and Hunyad Castle), it is marketed as the home of the titular character in Bram Stoker's Dracula. There is, however, no evidence that Stoker knew anything about this castle, which has only tangential associations with Vlad III, voivode of Wallachia, the putative inspiration for Dracula. As discovered by the Dutch author Hans Corneel de Roos, the location Bram Stoker actually had in mind for Castle Dracula while writing his novel was an empty mountain top, Mount Izvorul Călimanului, 2,033 m high, located in the Transylvanian Kelemen Alps near the former border with Moldavia, at [47°08'03" North, 25°17'19" East http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Bran_Castle¶ms=47_08_03_N_25_17_19_E_scale:30000].[1]
So, in conclusion, vampires, strigoi and other weird creatures are just a myth meant to scare or delight in stories. Sorry to dissapoint you my friend and see you tonight in your dreams!
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snickz
12 years ago
I read the number one tourist destination in Romania is..YES, Dracula's Castle, so see it's not all bad, and your country certainly is raking in the money from it.
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changedname
12 years ago
You would rather us think of Vlad the Impaler or Dracula and extremely sexy girls and vampiresses? :)
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medic_sean426-558-840409
12 years ago
You're getting awfully worked up over something you acknowledge as being fictional.
Your facts are genuinely interesting, but your conclusion isn't tied into them at all. You conclude that because folklore exists and there is a castle that is tangentially related to the historical Vlad Dracul, this means that there are no such things as Romanian vampires - a conclusion you don't actually address at all in your facts. Point of fact, you don't actually prove anything at all aside from that your country has a rich tapestry of both folklore and historical interest - which no one has stated otherwise.
In conclusion, while your facts about Romania are interesting, they in no way resemble evidence of the non-existance of Romanian - or any - vampires or other "weird" creatures.
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king_of_bob
9 years ago
He doesn't have any facts. The poster literally copied 90% of that post directly from the wiki article about Stigoi. The only original thoughts in that entire post are the first two sentences and the closing sentence. Everything else is just copied directly from the Wiki.
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