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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Robert Lamb and this is the

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Speaker 2: Monster Fact, a short form series from Stuff to Blow

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Speaker 2: Your Mind, focusing in non mythical creatures, ideas and monsters.

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Speaker 2: In time, I have a special omnibus episode for you

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Speaker 2: this week, once more, collecting four past episodes, this time

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Speaker 2: regarding vampires upbursts. Let's consider a possible Irish origin for

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Speaker 2: Count Dracula. Count Dracula was Irish, or at least that's

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Speaker 2: the case made by various historians and folklors. Now certainly

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Speaker 2: to be sure, the eighteen ninety seven novel Dracula places

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Speaker 2: the character's origins firmly in Transylvania, famously draws on the

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Speaker 2: legacy of historical fifteenth century Wallachian ruler Vlad the Impaler.

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Speaker 2: But on the other hand, Dracula's author, Bron Stoker, was

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Speaker 2: himself an Irishman. As pointed out by Celtic historian Bob

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Speaker 2: Curran in was Dracula an Irishmen published in the Journal

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Speaker 2: History Ireland in two thousand. Stoker never visited Eastern Europe,

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Speaker 2: but he certainly would have been exposed to various Irish

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Speaker 2: legends of evil blood drinking kings and chieftains, including tales

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Speaker 2: of Irish vampire king Aertuck. As is often the case

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Speaker 2: with such tales, the details of our Tuck's evil varies

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Speaker 2: from telling to telling. It may be more accurate to

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Speaker 2: think of him as a tribal chieftain rather than a king.

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Speaker 2: He would have reigned in the fifth or sixth century

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Speaker 2: CE in the district of Glenullin in Northern Ireland. He

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Speaker 2: is often described as a dwarf, or as possessing a

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Speaker 2: physical deformity that sets him apart from other men. He

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Speaker 2: was also a powerful and evil wizard, so when life

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Speaker 2: finally managed to kill him, undeath was the natural next step.

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Speaker 2: Some accounts say that Aurtuk fell to his death while

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Speaker 2: jealously creeping about the ledges of his castle's towers, trying

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Speaker 2: people were so terrified of the chieftain's evil that they

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Speaker 2: convinced or hired a rival chieftain, Kathan, to assassinate him.

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Speaker 2: Either way, once dead, his people buried Aartuk upright in

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Speaker 2: his grave, as was befitting a man of his rank.

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Speaker 2: But you know what happened next, Aurtuk returned from the grave,

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Speaker 2: and with a thirst for blood, he demanded his people

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Speaker 2: bleed for him, filling a great drinking bowl. Horrified by

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Speaker 2: his return, Aurtuk's people had him murdered or re murdered,

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Speaker 2: depending on the telling by a hero, rival or assassin.

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Speaker 2: They buried him, and once more he returned for blood.

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Speaker 2: This cycle repeated itself, and finally the would be slayer

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Speaker 2: consulted with a local druid or priest and learned the

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Speaker 2: secret of what must be done to keep Auertuck dead. First,

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Speaker 2: skewer the undead creature's heart with a u wood sword,

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Speaker 2: then bury them upside down in the grave, head toward hell,

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Speaker 2: and cap the grave with thorns, ash twigs, and a

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Speaker 2: great stone. And so it was done. But if the

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Speaker 2: stone were ever removed, we are told this blood drinking dwarf,

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Speaker 2: more than a millennium dead, would once more rise to

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Speaker 2: quench his evil thirst. As Karan explains in his article,

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Speaker 2: there are other tales of Irish vampires, and several stand

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Speaker 2: out tales involve blood drinking nobles. Uniquely Irish spins on

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Speaker 2: the global vampire myth often entail the mixture of blood

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Speaker 2: as traditional Celtic venerations of the dead. These various tales

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Speaker 2: would have likely been known to Bromstoker, infusing his iconic

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Speaker 2: vampire lord with Irish traditions of the undead. Even the

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Speaker 2: name Dracula calls to mind the Irish word dracola, which

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Speaker 2: means bad or tainted blood. Now let's turn to the

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Speaker 2: world of video games and one of the more popular

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Speaker 2: vampires to emerge from that realm in recent years. In

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Speaker 2: Evil Village, the character Ethan Winters finds himself beset by werewolves, vampires,

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Speaker 2: and other creatures of darkness in an unnamed Eastern European

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Speaker 2: the most impressive of these strange rulers is Lady Dimitrescu

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Speaker 2: any other Gothic fem fatale figure, resplendent with classic vampiric

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Speaker 2: While she often employs brute giant strength and dispatching her enemies,

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Speaker 2: game monsters. In dissecting the influences that brought this character together,

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Speaker 2: both Dracula and Countess Elizabeth Bathory. But many commentators have

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Speaker 2: also pointed to the modern Japanese yuri or yokai known

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Speaker 2: older yokai named taka Ona literally tall Woman, briefly mentioned

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Speaker 2: Multiple giant testes of varying temperaments can be found in

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Speaker 2: and in Hindu traditions, the demon giant tests Putana attempts

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Speaker 2: feminine power. Her ancestors run the gamut of hads, demons, heroes,

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Speaker 2: do something quite unnatural. They hop like a creature whose

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Speaker 2: A Social History of Unburied dead Bodies in Chengina sixteen

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Speaker 2: horror and comedy films, including nineteen eighty five's Mister Vampire,

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Speaker 2: at your gaming table. Finally, let's discuss a particular vampire

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Speaker 2: from the world of Doom and Stoner Rock. The two

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Speaker 2: Electric Wizard paints exactly the sort of picture you might

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Speaker 2: While the vampires of old thirsted only for human blood,

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Speaker 2: Now why these notions don't sound encouraging for Count Drugula

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Speaker 2: physician Galen wrote of the alleged blood purifying properties of

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Speaker 2: vampire bats do not learn taste diversions, as explored by

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Speaker 2: Ratcliffe at all. In a two thousand and three study

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