Prince Vlad of "Dracula Untold" is not alone in the rich Vampire history. This October, Vlad the Impaler, who was believed to be the father of all vampires, steps out of history books and flies to the big screen in Dracula Untold, in an attempt to change the pop-culture notion people have of these legendary creatures of the night.
But as vampire history would have it, there is much more to the historical angle of "Dracula Untold" that is left in the dark. Vlad was not alone.
According to Live Science, the quintessential Dracula in pop vampire history was patterned after the infamous prince. But ...There are other bloodthirsty monsters that followed in his footsteps, albeit having different origin and nature. Here are two of them:
Elizabeth Bathory A.K.A. "The Blood Countess"
List Verse considers her the second most infamous bloodsucker next to Vlad the Impaler. She was a princess whose terrifying reign in Romania during the 16th year was marked by her fondness for torturing peasants.
She subjected her victims to unspeakable horrors that ranged from mauling to piercing their lips and fingers with iron nails, to leaving them to die in the snow after dousing them with frigid water. Speculations about her life as a vampire began when she allegedly had blood baths using the blood of young women. It was believed that she did this to keep herself young and beautiful.
Jure Grando A.K.A. "Strigon"
This time, a peasant becomes the vampire. However, he did not reside in Romania but Istria, Croatia. The bloodsucker in question was Jure Grando also called "Stringo"who passed away in 1656.
According to List Verse, he had scared threatened villagers near his area 16 years after his passing. Although he was the first purported bloodsucker to be officially called a vampire, his means of terrorizing was not through bloodsucking at all. He allegedly caused people's deaths by knocking on the doors of their homes.
