puget sound TRAIL UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND TACOMA, WA. 98416 JANUARY 18, 1974 Well stoke our lives on ft: Count Dracula noted for cruelty Editor's note: The TRAIL master of fiendish cruelty. particularly in Transylvania— went to press before we could "This was a time of lead the historians to say that cover Thursday evening's widespread terror and war, but the Count never nipped a neck. presentation of "An Evening Dracula refined toture to almost The creation of Dracula, "the with Count Dracula and His an art form," says McNally. vampire," is clearly owed to Friends," by Prof. Raymond T. Most of his horror came via the novelist Bram Stoker who McNally, so instead of a story on stake; hence his sobriquet 'the married the horror theme to Contemporary portrait of Count Dracula McNally 's performance, we offer Impaler.' Transylvanian vampirism which the story of his search for Count is, even by 'East European hospitals in Bucharest ever since. also a horror movie buff and has Dracula. IMPALED TURKS standards,- ---particularly rich. To It seems that despite the a special interest in the folklore "Once he made a virtual forest this day, peas-ants use garlic to serious and scholarly efforts of of the vampire in Europe. The legendary Count Dracula, out of 20,000 impaled Turks. ward off vampires and the two professors to identify It was the viewing of the Bela fictional nobleman who rose Another time he assembled the ultimately drive a stake through the real, perhaps demented but Lugosi vampire of the 1931 film from his coffin nights to drink sick and poor in a mansion and the suspected vampires' hearts. not vampirical Dracula, the which, McNally says, started his blood from the necks of put a torch to them to assure Professors McNally and horror remains. Recorded in wondering, some 15 years ago, Victorian ladies, was inspired by that only healthy and rich Florescu are convinced of the local folklore in the villages about the historical basis of the a real person—ghoulishly cruel, people would remain in his authenticity of Dracula because within a 20-mile radius of castle film and Bram Stoker's 1897 but not a vampire. realm." of what they term the "striking" Dracula, the stories of the real novel, Dracula. Evidence that Dracula was Dracula's reputation spread similarities of Dracula Dracula assembled by Florescu McNally has studied and more than a creation of novelist across several countries. He built documents collected all over and McNally are as exciting and traveled extensively in Europe Bram Stoker and filmmaker Bela the walls of the fortress of Europe. Archives in Russia, chilling as the fictitious monster and Russia, studying at the Lugosi has been compiled by Bucharest, he founded other Germany and Romania, official that has terrified generation University of Paris, Fordham two Boston College professors, castles and churches across a court histories in Turkey and after generation. University and the Free one of wham traces his heritage wide area and was the first Hungary, Slavic, Romanian and McNally, professor of history University of Berlin, where he to Dracula's times and has Romanian ruler of whom an German folk tales all coincide in and director of the Slavic and received his Ph.D. in Russian tracked the vampire's trail authentic contemporary painting terms of theme and plot, even East European Center at Boston history in 1956. He also did throughout Romania on three exists. But his name and his down to details. College, went on a Fullbright post-graduate research at separate occasions. modern identity as a vampire is But Dracula's castle still grant to Romania in order to Leningrad University. entirely unknown in Romania. enjoys ill repute among the pursue the shadowy, Aside from In Search of Dracula, however, is a villagers in the area and the local bloodthirsty subject of his new Dracula, he has written two - FT CLIFF 300 national hero, despite his peasants do not visit it too book, co-authored with Dr. books and many articles on cruelties. One of the most often. Even in the course of the Florescu, In Search of Dracula. Peter Chaadayev, a Russian Going up the Arges river to famous lines of Romanian scholars' expeditions to the His field of specialization is writer virtually unknown to the its source in the mountains of poetry laments, "Vlad the castle, Dr. Florescu's uncle was Russian and East European West who was the Pasternak of Wallachia, near the Impaler, where are you when we seriously injured and has been in intellectual history, but he is Russia in the 1830's. Transylvanian border, Professors need you?" Raymond McNally and There are varying reasons for Sen. Jackson: Romanian-born Radu Florescu his Draconian cruelty, the finally found Dracula's castle in historians believe. Some were 1969. "maniacal" acts of a Jack the Surrounded by dense forests, Ripper nature. Oil mongers blamed for crisis its walls rising straight up from "He'd slit the bellies of his the U.S. must be more the sides of a 300-foot precipice, mistresses when they became by Alan Smith Until the United States can the castle was every bit as pregnant," says Florescu. become independent of other self-sufficient. imposing, isolated and sinister as The scholars say that some of countries for petroleum Currently, the Congress is Sen. Henry M. Jackson told considering a Jackson bill which the man, Prince Dracula, who his cruel nature stemmed from UPS students Monday afternoon products, the senator continued, lived there. his imprisonment by the Turks it will have to contend with would allocate $20 billion that tax loopholes and dollars for research into energy Evidence from folkloric as an adolescent, when he was profit-hungry international oil energy problems. Thirty-five per stories in the castle area probably tortured together with cent of U.S. oil, he said, is source alternatives. companies are chiefly to blame Jackson said that ultimately combined with exhaustive his brother. In a later jailing by for the energy crisis. imported. Only 6% comes from research in East European the Hungarians, he also the Middle East. we will need to find other The Washington State sources of energy, which might archives indicates that Dracula exhibited his depravity; he asked senator, who sits on the Board He accused the oil companies was a 15th century Romanian his jailers to bring him mice and of neglecting home oil fields in include solar or hydrogen fusion of Visitors of the UPS School of sources. In addition, it will prince, also nicknamed Vlad the birds and he impaled and tore favor of lower-cost oil from the be Law, said the energy crisis will necessary to develop Alaskan Impaler. the feathers off of them. Middle East. (It costs $2.40 to not be eased much by a and Continental Shelf oil His name, Dracula, meaning "The mistreatment of his produce a barrel of oil in the settlement of the conflict in the reserves, and learn how to "son of the Devil," was derived mistresses, the use of U.S. and four cents a barrel in Middle East. convert various other substances from his father, Dracul, which is stakes—possibly potency Saudi Arabia.) He said it will only be eased to fuel without accompanying the word for Devil in modern symbols—strongly suggest some Oil companies have also by developing our own resources pollution. Romanian. kind of sexual inadequacy," says and by seeking alternative benefited handsomely from tax "We have no doubt that there Florescu. sources of energy. loopholes, which Jackson ENERGY BINGE really was a Dracula," says According to Slavic lore, opposed in Congress. Most of all, he said, we must Oxford educated Florescu, "and Dracula was killed near Consequently, the senator conserve. the count was as fiendish as his Bucharest fighting the Turks. In WARNING explained, prices have entered "We have been on an energy fictional reputation, except he the best Dracula tradition, his the stratosphere, and the binge for too long," Jackson said wasn't a vampire." body was gone when his crypt Calling for a nation with economies of Western Europe, at a UPS press conference The Dracula lore collected by was exhumed in 1931. But the "economic growth and Japan, and many emerging Monday. "We have to try to do a Florescu and McNally reveals absence of Dracula in the environmental quality," Jackson countries are in danger of better job of saving oil." him to have been a great war vampire lore of the said it is possible to have an "catastrophe." But in the meantime, we hero, praised by his subjects for peasants—who still believe America in which all citizens are Jackson, who chairs a Senate should be looking into the his valor, although he was also a strongly in vampires, employed and can enjoy the subcommittee on investigations, "areas of infinite supply," he "bounty" of this country. said the Senate will begin warned. Jackson is the author of the Monday to study the oil National Environmental Policy On American-Russian foreign problem. Hopefully, he said, a policy, Jackson said he wanted a Act and, in the words of UPS review of the oil business' "real detente—not a phony Vice President Richard Dale policies will lead to the creation one." He claimed the cause of Smith, has been concerned of governmental regulations world peace was not helped by about conservation and the which oil companies must the "Great Grain Robbery of environment long before anyone recognize if they wish to 1972," which cost the American else could even spell them.