Originally Posted by
Robocop
Well, really interesting thread, but one has to mention the most FAMOUS creatures of all when it comes about Balkan - VAMPIRES.
Mythology about Vampires IS NOT from Romania, but in fact from Serbia. First who ever reported this stories about vampires to western ppl, were Austrians durin Austro-Hungary, their officers and diplomats who would often visit Serbia heard about that strange stories, so they reported them back in Vienna, trough Vienna they spreaded trough rest of Europe and came to Irish writer Bram Stoker, who used VAMPIRES and the mythology from Serbia for most famous vampire novel (and one of the most famous novels ever); Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Bram Stoker used entire mythology about Vampires for Dracula but he took Dracula for main role in Novel, a Dracula, Duke/Count of Wallachia, which Stoker placed in Transylvania, and made a vampire out of him, in combination with true story about Dracula fighting Turks etc...
Slowly but surely VAMPIRES became one of the most famous Horror EVENTS of modern era for movies, books, etc...IN ENTIRE WORLD.
And Bram Stoker's Dracula became instantly the bestseller novel in 19th and 20th century.
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