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Transylvania is one of the places mentioned in various episodes of the animated series The Addams Family, where the Addamses used to have fun in. Transylvania is the main setting for the animated series Count Duckula. Transylvania is one of the main settings for "Wizards vs. Werewolves", a Wizards of Waverly Place episode.
Transylvania in popular culture Largely as a result of the success of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Transylvania has become a popular setting for gothic horror fiction, and most particularly vampire fiction.[1] In some later books and movies Stoker's Count Dracula was conflated with the historical Vlad III Dracula, known as Vlad the Impaler (1431–1476),
Mina is already affected by her "blood wedding" with the vampire and left within a circle of Holy Bread. In a final note, written seven years after their dramatic adventures, Harker reports on the group's return to Transylvania: The castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of desolation. (Chapter 27, Jonathan Harker's Final Note)
Get your turtlenecks ready, it's time to talk vampires. If you're fascinated by creatures of the night, the kind that prey on human blood, you aren't alone.From dressing up in vampire costumes on ...
Tales of the undead consuming the blood or flesh of living beings have been found in nearly every culture around the world for many centuries. [3] Today these entities are predominantly known as vampires, but in ancient times, the term vampire did not exist; blood drinking and similar activities were attributed to demons or spirits who would eat flesh and drink blood; even the devil was ...
With the thoughtful, if monstrous, vampires of film history in mind, ... Count Dracula is the owner of the “human-free” Hotel Transylvania. When he invites his crew of monsters to get away ...
Transylvania is a historical region in central and northwestern Romania.It was under the rule of the Agathyrsi, part of the Dacian Kingdom (168 BC–106 AD), Roman Dacia (106–271), the Goths, the Hunnic Empire (4th–5th centuries), the Kingdom of the Gepids (5th–6th centuries), the Avar Khaganate (6th–9th centuries), the Slavs, and the 9th century First Bulgarian Empire.
Strigòi is a Romanian word that originated from a root related to the Latin terms strix or striga with the addition of the augmentative suffix "-oi" (feminine "-oaică"). [3] [4] Otila Hedeşan notes that the same augmentative suffix appears in the related terms moroi and bosorcoi (borrowed from Hungarian boszorka) and considers this parallel derivation to indicate membership in the same ...