Bram Stoker

Vlad the Impaler and Richard III….?

Apr 15, 2023

anniversaries, buildings, culture, genealogy, religion

Ambras Castle, Black Death, Bram Stoker, Caragea’s Plague, Charles “III”, Dracula, epigenetics, executions, impaling, mediaeval curses, Richard III, Romania, Vlad the Impaler, Wallachia, witchcraft

There I was on the road to Damascus when there was a great roll of thunder and suddenly I was confronted by Vlad the Impaler. I jest of course, but I did see a TV documentary about Vlad’s curse and did have a flash of inspiration for an article for the blog. Except….right now I…
Was this a practice to prevent corpses from becoming revenants . . . .?

May 19, 2021

archaeology, culture, films

Billingsgate, Bram Stoker, burials, Ireland, legends, revenants, Romania, vampires, Vlad the Impaler

I have watched a documentary about these skeletons with stones in their mouths. Sorry, I can’t find a link to it online, but it was fascinating. While looking around Google for more about this, I came upon another site which explains more. And another, not otherwise worth the link, which contained the following tantalising passage:…
An exhibition with a sample of Richard’s handwriting….

Jun 1, 2018

Events, sources

Albert Einstein, Bram Stoker, Elizabeth I, exhibitions, Frida Kahlo, J. Pierpont Morgan Museum and Library, Jean-Paul Sartre, Leon Trotsky, letters, Mary Stuart, Oscar Wilde, Pedro Correa do Lago, Rene Magritte, Richard III, Sigmund Freud, USA, Victoria, William Butler Yeats, writing

One of Richard’s letters is included in this upcoming museum exhibition. Unfortunately for those on this British side of the Atlantic, the museum in question is in New York! The Magic of Handwriting: The Pedro Corrêa do Lago Collection will run from June 1 to September 16, 2018 at the Morgan Library and Museum in…

Bram Stoker

Vlad the Impaler and Richard III….?

Was this a practice to prevent corpses from becoming revenants . . . .?

An exhibition with a sample of Richard’s handwriting….