Vampires have been a part of folklore for centuries.

Perhaps no mythical vampire is more famous than that of Count Dracula.

While Count Dracula might be fictional, believe it or not, he was based and named on a real person who lived in 15th century Romania.

While he might not have been a vampire, he was still plenty deadly.

Learn more about Vladian Paler, also known as Vladracula, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The classical interpretation of Dracula involves a whole bunch of things.

He sleeps in coffins, only comes out at night, has a weakness for garlic and crosses,

can't see himself in a mirror, and of course drinks other people's blood.

None of this really has anything to do with

the historic Dracula however. The real Dracula was named Vlad the third or

Vladracula who is the second son of Vlad Dracul.

The word Dracul meant Dragon in medieval Romanian,

and he got the name when he was initiated into the order of the dragon,

which was a chivalric order.

Draculia, or Dracula, just means son of the dragon.

In modern Romanian, Dracul has come to mean a word for the devil. His father of Lydracul was the ruler of Wolakia. It was

situated in modern day Romania and was located north of the Danube River and south of the Carpathian

Mountains. In the mid-15th century, it was sandwiched between a rock and a hard place.

The rock was known as the Ottoman Empire, and the hard place was known as the Kingdom of Hungary.

Vlad and his brother Radu both grew up in the Ottoman Empire

held hostage there by the Ottoman Turks. Vlad's father and eldest brother were

killed when forces back by the Kingdom of Hungary invaded Wallachia and installed his cousin

Vladislav the second on the throne. In 1448 Vlade then struck back with the

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