How did Dracula become the world's most famous vampire? - Stanley Stepanic 

During my childhood I used to think that Transylvania and Pennsylvania were both the same.

"Mother,can you tell me a bed-time story?" "-Sure!When I was your age,people were vomiting and bleeding and dying and being buried alive.Then,they'd wake up and drink the blood of other people!How cool is that?"

I love how his mom just tells a bunch of horror stories to a 7 yr old

everyone asks who's dracula, but no-one asks how's dracula.

It always surprises me how many people don't know Transylvania is in Romania btw

There is a class in University of Virginia, called Dracula. It uses Dracula as an entry point that introduces the European myths, lures, cultures, and American pop culture. As an international student, I love this class a lot!

Ted ed: *answers questions I did not knew I had*

How did such a great figure, based on centuries of history and legends, end up in the Twilight saga?

100 years from now Ted Ed will be making a video about Twilight and it's characters.

1:37 that lady is just 300% done

Imagine being poor seven-year-old Bram Stoker “Mom...I don’t feel so good.” “Awwwww, do you wan to hear a story?” “Sure!” “When I was young, there was a terrible disease, killing many, many people, and we had to bury others alive! Also, there’re some thingies called vampires or something who wake up after dying and become carnivourous bloodthirsty monsters and kill everyone in our town I think. Goodnight!”

1:37 I just love how she is annoyed

Fun fact: The "vampire" the Austrian doctor was supposed to exam was Sava Savanovic, a local celebrity in a Serbian village, who everybody feared. He disproved it and explained the case to Austrians, but the Serbs remained firm in the belief that Sava rises every month. His mill (the mill is an ominous symbol in Serbian folklore on its own) is still avoided by the villagers to this day. It is also a tourist attraction, by day of course

hello from Transilvania, Romania

i love how books lives on even when the writer dies, its like we leave a piece of us that people accross places and time will see.

'I'm somewhat of a celebrity myself' - Dracula

Does anyone else only watch this whole channel just for this guys voice?

You forgot to mention that Dracula is a public domain novel, meaning anyone can make their own adaptation of it.

Mother telling Horror Stories and then says *Good night* Her child: IT AINT A GOOD NIGHT!!

lol, idk if that's a good bedtimes story "when i was a little girl the village had an outbreak of cholera, it was so bad that we had to bury people alive in mass graves. g'night son, sweet dreams"

I bet no one knows that "Dracula" comes from "dracul" in romanian and in english means "the demon" :)

These animations make any topic more interesting than it was before. Always learning something new! Who else agrees?

I was thrilled to see someone finally say that Vlad Tepes was not the inspiration for Count Dracula. Stoker only copied the name "Dracula" from a document or book he used as research. It's like the canard that Bob Kane was the sole creator of Batman.

they put on stone masks while cringing their British brother, shouting "I REJECT MY HUMANITY, JOJO!"

Transylvania is Romanian land. Fight me

1:36 People, I'm dead already…this ain't gonna anything to me

Vlad the Impaler was known as Dracula and he was what the character was inspired by. Vlad was known for having a tower in his castle that was high up. On the ground below the tower he had spikes planted in the ground. He would take his enemies up to the top of the tower and push them over the edge to the spikes below killing them. Vlad was called Dracula because the translations stands for "Dragon". The current British royal family are actually distant relations of Vlad the Impaler.

Ted ed: how did dracula become the most famous vampire? Me: how did anyone draw all this?

l am from Serbia and here vampires are a common thing

I live in Transylvania and i went to the Dracula castle (yes,there is a castle where he "lived") and it was horror and amazing in the same time😟

Believe me that book is everything but scary, but the interactions between Jonathan and Dracula are so FUNNY AND CUTE

This playlist reminded me of the first serious poem I had ever written; it was for the final project during my high school senior year drama class. I think this poem took me a weeks time, and a lot of walking to write haha. A softly tinted candy colored horizon, brings about the end to the first day in a long forever. A cool dawn breeze flows across the endless lakefront. As gulls playfully pass by, you hear a sound close to your heart, yet unrecognizable. You follow the narrow pier but reach its sudden end. Still the sound continues, haunting your every memory trying to recognize the tones of the benevolent falsetto. With tears beginning to swell, you leap into the open waters, and fight the storm of the ocean with no guide but the sweet serenade, drowning out even the crack of waves 20 feet tall. As you near, you begin to hear the faint sounds of the one who saved your life. Rather now this blissful sound has evolved into a bellowing melody of beautiful rhymes and utterance. And soon you learn the goodnight you heard, was the final product of 10,000 words. When can true bliss exist? When are we allowed to feel love with complete freedom? When is self-actualization a reality? The hollows of one’s mind may destroy these ideas before we can embrace them. Try as we may, failure and pain are a part of realizing these ideas, and those realties, fearfully may never come. But with withered realities and dreams comes hope. A hero, a warrior, an entity of love. A banner held high with morals of unmistakable value. A shield clashed with the iron clad of failure. And stripes of battles taken by victory. A sword dulled by the slashing of demons, only to be sharpened in preparation for what may be their last quarrel. At night both warrior and weak reflect on the dust settled and which star to follow. But where love is given in recur, its return is curtain. Those saved never forget, as those who fight may never fully understand.

The animation in this is so good as usual

I like Carmilla's take on vampires where the vampire is a lesbian lol.

This guy was so cool to have as a professor. You could tell he was incredibly passionate about the topic. And I learned so much in his class

The art in this is gorgeous!

I REJECT MY HUMANITY, JOJO!

>vampire 0:07 >100 years 0:28 >Twist of Fate *KONO DIO DA*

The Musical Orchestra background gives me chills. Great job!

Mom: What are you looking at? Me: It's complicated

Once more we see horrors brought forth because of copyrights.

I never knew that Bela Lugosi did Dracula on stage! I always learn something interesting in these TED-Ed talks. Thanks!

Despite Dracula being the most famous vampire in history, most people don't really know his debut story. They don't know about the Harkers, or Van Helsing, or Lucy, or her boyfriends, and they're the ones who actually are the main characters of the story.

1:40 This is the first time my country was in a video like this... i pissed myself when i heard "When Serbia"

"Hamilton" and "Broadway" in one video? Can't be coincidence.

Stroker: Mommy, it's night time... I want a story. His mom: ... then people started bleeding and dying, then they... wake up and drink other people's BLOOD!

Kid : Mom tell me a bedtime story . Mom : Ok sweetheart * starts telling a horror story *

I don't know man. I only thought dracula was another name for vampire-😭

Perfect timing to post this. I just bought the book a few days ago :)

I used to adore this stuff in elementary school, now the 2020 adaptation has revived my love for this

I think we all have some horror stories about Covid 19 for generations to come, right? 😆

Wait what?! I saw this video on suggestion and I was like "dude there is no way there's anything in the vid that I didn't know, cuz my professor during '13 summer in that class Dracula pretty much got EVERYTHING you need to know about vampire covered". And once I clicked in it, it's the same dude! I love you, Professor Stepanic!

For more reference of moder vampires and what inspired them. I recommend *The Bride of Corinth* . A german poem from Goethe that inspired both Carmila and Dracula. Not so much for *The Vampire which is a continuation of Gordon Byron shor tales, but the poem is one of the earliest takes on moderm vampires.

Imagine Marvel's Blade taking him on, or better yet, Mobius.

Honestly this channel helped me learn more than in school.

Your voice was very easy and entertaining to listen to. As Well a the imagery. Fantastic video

I heard of Nosferatu from Spongebob, and thought that he looked like Dracula. Now I know that it's no coincidence. The part about people doing stuff to get rid of vampires, and the physician putting an end to the myth I already knew that, but the rest was just wow

I actually live in Transylvania.

Ted Ed this my first time on your channel but im enjoying your stories

Me: watches these videos when im bored because they are very cool My family: are they ok-

what???.....Bram stoker as kid was in bed and his mother told him stories of outbreak of cholerae and Mass graves and people being buried alive........😮😮😮

Jure Grando Alilović (1579-1656) was probably the first real person described as a vampire in historical records, he was from Croatia's region of Istria

The Bram Stoker festival in Dublin is awesome! Definitely worth a visit

Dracula was the quintisential movie star/celebrity vampire. The only one that I can think of that comes close to making the same impact would be Lestat and he still falls short. It wasn't just him having a novel at his back to generate the fame but the character himself was and still is- one of the most fascinating ever created. Vampires are immortal but Dracula is eternal.

This narrator gives me ASMR. More of him, please...

Fun fact: The book was a whole misunderstanding .Vlad Țepeş actually comes from Walachya.

You always have to love Ted-Ed it's a learning fun channel

This was uploaded on my birthday.

Dracula: the king of vampires

Last time i came this early America was still a colony.

Every time you think of a Vampire.....you think of Count Dracula.

It should be noted that while the OG Dracula resembled Vlad Tepesh basically in name only, later adaptations very much introduced elements of "The Dragon's Son" into the general lore.

We Serbs have taken a lot words from English, but we gave them vampire, so we are eaven. 😉

I'm from Serbia!!!!!

Excellent video. Thanks

Short answer: Dracula was curious of the stone Mask and that when he wore it and spilled it with blood he became a Vampire

Dracula was one of the greatest enemies of the Muslim Ottoman State, he was not a vampire or fairy tale, rather he was a vicious crusader who fought against the army of Muhammad al-Fatih.

Dracula has been inspired from stories of Vlad the impaler and Lady Elizabeth Bathory also known as Blood Countess.

Me: "Mrs. Stoker, how many similarities to your late husband's book Dracula does it take for you to win a lawsuit?" Mrs. Stoker: "SIXTEEN!"

Surprisingly, with at least a dozen adaptations, only one matches Dracula's appearance, including his mustache and that's the 1970 version by Jesus Franco, starring Christopher Lee as Dracula, outside of the Hammer Horror franchise.

I think 1897 Dracula By Bram Stoker is the most celebrated tale about vampires. A lot of movies are based on this masterpiece.

So I'm the only one here before Netflix's Dracula? Actually, I'm literally the only one excited for that potential masterpiece

Great video!

I do love these videos.

1:36 her facial expression says it all🤣🤣

the art in this was beautiful!!

0:22 DAYUUUM ngl, his eyebrows clean asf and he rockin the waves.

@Ted-ED, this should be an educational chanel. Please, present accurate, and complete informations.

I heard that there was a king in 15th-16th century, who titled himself Dracul, meaning king in a way. He had a son who was named Dracula, and he suffered many gruesome experiences like seeing his brother being slaughtered. Dracula obviously became king and he killed many people and many say he had a "thirst" for blood. Eventually it adapted to other countries.

im a romanian just saying

One of my favorite novels.

The Intro and voice of the narrator seemed so familiar and I finally remembered we always watch these videos in Social Studies.

Always thought Bram Stokers book was a let down, nice to see I have history on my side. Sheridan Le Fanus Carmilla is a must read however:)

I remember Dacre Stoker (Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew) kept telling us at his booksigning a year ago that he was 99.9% convinced that Bram Stoker's "mysterious illness" was in fact asthma, because he has it, his son has it, and Bram Stoker's great-grandson has it. It ran in his family.

Dr. Van Sweeten was the one who made the studies against the rumors of vampires terrorizing the cities, Bram Stoker made the character as Van Helsing.

I had the honour of meeting Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew, AND Bram Stoker's great-grandson last year when Dacre Stoker was doing a talk and book-signing for 'Dracul'... They BOTH signed my copy, and the great-grandson lives in my area!!! :D

Dracula was an actual pain in the neck for the Ottoman Empire...😂👌🏻

Can you do a video on George Orwell's book Animal Farm?

Already know the story but I like it I wanna see what animation they make

The Netscape gold touched my heart