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Article: Dracula undressed.(LETTERS)
- Article from:
- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 9, 2002
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Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES
I feel I speak for fellow Hungarians when I say that building a Dracula-inspired theme park in Transylvania would be ridiculous ("Dracula does Disney?" Page 1, June 15). First, the very notion of "Dracula," popularized by the eponymous 19th century novel, is widely misconceived. The name is derived from Vlad the Impaler, also known as Dracul, who was a Romanian tribal chief in the late Middle Ages. He did not live in a big, dark castle; rather, in tents on the southern slopes of the Transylvanian Alps, which are located not in Transylvania proper but in Wallach, a region of present-day Romania. And although Dracul, like the ...