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The very first appearance of Count Dracula isin Bram Stoker's "Dracula". There wasa Dracula in the 15th century: Vlad the Impaler. Stoker didin't know much about him. He was simply looking for some information about vampire beliefs in Transylvania when he came across his name in a book he was researching entitled An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldovia (1820). This book has very short section on a "Voivode Dracula" who fought against the Turks.

When religion came to the Slavs, stories about vampires did not stop. But people believed that some religious things, like holy bread and the cross, could also protect them from vampires. There was only one way to kill a vampire and to save the soul of the dead person: that, they believed, was a thick, sharp piece of wood through the heart.