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Dracula: The Legend and Medical Fascination Lectured by A-jen

Becoming a Vampire

● Predispositions: birth (born with teeth, or with extra nipple, excess hair, red birthmark, etc.) ● Actions in life leading to vampiric transformation: Committing suicide, practicing witchcraft, leading a immoral life (prostitution, murders) ● Death or after-death causes: death at the hand of a vampire, having a cat jump over the corpse, death by violence, etc.

Significance of Blood

The Supernatural and mystical qualities of blood Blood as the keeper and giver of life To lose it signifies the irretrievable loss of vitality, essence and strength To receive it can restore lost power, heal mortal wounds and grant eternal life

The Supernatural and mystical qualities of blood The association of the vampire with blood presents a complex union of ancient blood myths, death, immortality and the very nature of human life Count Dracula begins as an old creature, turning gradually younger thanks to the blood of the living

The image of threshold in Dracula: No entry without invitation from the victim

The vampiric unlife link the creatures to the primordial questions of all human existence

The vampire appears to be the bridge between the physical and the spiritual world, between life and grave, between death and immortality

Powers of the Vampire Create another vampire Flight / eternal life / drain force Misting or vaporizing Mighty strength increasing with age Hypnosis Change in size / transformation Power over wind, rain and other natural forces Control of animals

Protection from Vampires Garlic / holly / fishnets Seeds / grain / incense / tar Holy water / candles / bells Mirrors / knife / stakes or pins Crosses or crucifixes Prayer

Dracula and Popular entertainment

Literature and Dracula 1800 Johann Lugwig Tieck, “Wake not the dead” 1805 Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Serapion Brethren 1838 Edgar Allan Poe, “Ligeia” 1848 Alexandre Dumas, “The Pale-faced lady” 1887 Guy de Maupassant, “The Horla”

Literature and Dracula 1894 Arthur Conan Doyle, “The parasite” 1897 Bram Stoker, Dracula 1919 M.R. James “An episode in cathedral history” 1954 Richard Matheson, I Am Legend 1957 Robert Bloch, “The living dead” 1975 Stephen King, ‘Salem’s Lot Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief

Cinema and Dracula Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (U.S. 1948) Black Sabbath (Italy, 1963) Brides of Dracula (U.S. 1960) Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (U.K. 1974) Conde Dracula, El (Italy/Spain/U.K. 1970) Count Dracula (U.K. 1971) Daughter of Darkness (Belgium 1971)

Cinema and Dracula Drakula (Hungary 1921) Drakula Istanbulda (Turkey 1953) Nosferatu (Germany 1922) Nosferatu, the Vampyre (Germany 1979) Vampyr (France 1932)

The Legend Lives On