Dracula from Nebraska

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Science Fiction

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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We all know that novelist Bram Stoker based the character of Dracula off Vlad the Impailer, the Romanian prince who fought off the Turks -- or that's the urban legend. Stoker actually didn't research Vlad that much, or vampire folklore. So scholars have looked into his personal life to suss out Stoker's inspiration. Many think Dracula could've been based on his employer, the famous actor Henry Irving. But Professor Louis Warren of UC Davis has another theory. The novel Dracula was inspired by a very unlikely persona: William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, star and creator of the Wild West show. Featuring voice actor John Keating, and WNYC's Katya Rogers.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Earrillessing to imaginary worlds,
0:02.7	a show about how we create them,
0:04.2	and why we suspend our disbelief,
0:06.6	I'm Eric Mullensky.
0:08.6	This was a Dracula indeed.
0:11.2	Woe was it that his own unworthy brother,
0:14.2	when he had fallen, sold his people to the Turk
0:16.8	and brought the shame of slavery on them?
0:19.5	Was it not this Dracula indeed
0:22.4	who inspired that other of his race,
0:24.5	who in a later age, again and again,
0:27.1	brought his forces over the great river
0:29.1	into Turkey land?
0:30.5	Who, when he was beaten back, came again and again?
0:35.6	It's a story that we all know, or think we know.
0:39.3	The Irish novelist Abraham Stoker,
0:42.0	otherwise known as Bram Stoker,
0:44.2	was inspired to write Dracula
0:46.2	when he read the tale of Vlad the Impaler,
0:49.3	15th century Romanian Warlord.
0:52.6	Vlad defended his kingdom against the Turks so fiercely,
0:55.9	he hoisted his enemies heads on sticks outside of his castle.
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