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FOREIGN AMBASSADORS
-When visiting ambassadors from Turkey neglected to remove their turbans in his presence said they could not because it was their custom always to wear them, he had their turbans nailed to their heads with small iron nails and sent them home that way
THE NOBLEMAN WITH A KEEN SENSE OF SMELL
-in the Russian story, a servant gagged at the stench of impaled bodies at an outdoor banquet Dracula was having. Dracula often dined amidst the dying people whose deaths he had ordered. Dracula had the complaining servant impaled a few feet above the rest so that he would'nt smell anything.
TWO MONKS
-Two Roman Catholic monks were in Dracula's court where all kinds of people were impaled. Dracula separated the 2 monks and asked the first what he thought: the 1st monk said that Dracula had made martyrs of these people and was doing wrong. 2nd monk said they must have done something wrong and Dracula was punishing them justly. The 1st monk got impaled and the 2nd was given 50 ducats of gold and a free escort to the Hungarian border.
-A Greek monk was constantly belittling a poor Romanian priest over theological and other matters and belittling Romanians in general: Dracula invited both to his court (neither knew of the other. Dracula asked the Greek monk what he thought of him; the Greek monk was a sycophant and lied and was executed. A Romanian priest was asked the same questions and replied that some people are unhappy under Vlad's reign because their problems have increased and others (he says) are happy. Vlad is delighted at his honesty and promotes him the court confessor}
LAZY WOMAN
-Once Dracula saw a man on the street with a dirty and ragged shirt. Dracula asked if he had a wife and the man says yes. Dracula sees that she is healthy and has plenty of flax and calls her lazy so he has both her hands cut off and has her body impaled {he procured a new wife for the man and showed her what happened to her lazy predecessor as a warning; the new wife was definitely not lazy.
DRACULA'S MISTRESS
-Not in Russian versions. {Dracula's mistress sees Vlad is unhappy and tries to cheer him up by saying she is pregnant. He tells her not to lie (the mistress,now afraid of being caught in the lie tries to maintain that she REALLY is, thinking that Drakula would'nt know.On the contrary, he opened her entrails to see and saw nothing and as she lay dying, he says "See, I knew you could not be pregnant.
THE FLORENTINE MERCHANT
-A travelling merchant lost 160 ducats while staying at an Inn and went to Prince Dracula to explain. Dracula proclaimed that this was no way to treat a guest. He told the town either to find the thief or he'd destroy the whole town. He also demanded that the townspeople replace the ducats BUT that ONE EXTRA (ie: 161 ducats) be returned. The Foreigner reported the extra ducat to Dracula, thereby saving himself from certain impalement for Dracula was testing his and honesty. The thief was found, and, of course, impaled. Dracula asked the Merchant to leave his gold there.
THE GOLDEN CUP
-Dracula had a golden cup placed near the fountain in a deserted square of Targoviste. The cup was left there for people to drink from. NO ONE ever dared steal it.
DRACULA'S TREASURE
-Buried in iron barrels at the bottom of a river and all the artisan who made and hid the treasure were killed
BURNING THE SICK AND THE POOR
-Dracula invited beggars [the sick & the poor] to dinner and then locked the room from then outside and set in on fire claiming that he was "eliminating inferior stock." In another version he came in to talk to them while they were eating and asked if they wanted to be without any more cares in the world, by which they assumed he intended to give them gifts. The beggars were apparently lazy and openly said so and Dracula thought that because they lived off the sweat of others they were thieves... he invited all beggars in the land to free clothes and free food .. they got drunk and died in the fire.
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