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

Over a hundred years after his creator was laid to rest, Dracula lives on as the most famous vampire in history. But this Transylvanian noble – neither the first fictional vampire, nor the most popular of his time – may have remained buried in obscurity if not for a twist of fate. Stanley Stepanic explains how a critical copyright battle catapulted Bram Stoker’s character into literary renown.

Lesson by Stanley Stepanic, animation by Phuong Mai NGUYEN.

[fatimesaiti]

"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?"

[yassfishy]

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

[zeetergiest]

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

[chessforfun]

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

[eatornator-oxdx]

everyone asks who's dracula,

but no-one asks how's dracula.

[miercat]

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!

[BalkanPizza]

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

[MrHarsh]

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

[luuchoo]

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

[marimarcalbero]

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.

[ivanstanojevic]

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

[tankdempsey]

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

[m.magarwal]

Imagine being poor seven-year-old Bram Stoker
“Mom...I don’t feel so good.”
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!”

[prithviganeais]

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

[johnmcdonald]

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

[chimanirawat]

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

[witchbiss]

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

[ReplayTVchannel]

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

[zKampeR]

Transylvania is Romanian land. Fight me

[johnhotchkiss]

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.