[Sca-cooks] Re: OT more Dracula stuff: was, re: Cooking with Bonzer, etc.

[Philip & Susan Troy]

>  >t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net writes:
>Wallachia became an independent
>principality late in the 13th Century.  Given the history of the region,
>Vlad's family may have been of Magyar origin, a point which I have not
>researched.
>
>Bram Stoker was the one who claimed him for Transylvania.

Note that Stoker places his fictional Castle Dracula in Transylvania;
Vlad Tepes had several castles, none of which was called Castle
Dracula; the main residence was Bran Castle, I forget the other
biggie. On the other hand, Stoker also never actually identifies his
fictional Dracula with Vlad Tepes, other than naming him for one of
Vlad's nicknames.