Sparkley vampires are pretty hilarious.
It's intersting how ideas differ where Prince Vlad Dracul III is concerned. He was considered a great hero in his time and still is today. Because of his ferocity and the stories of his torture techniques, he was able to keep the Ottoman Empire at bay. Who was the real vampire was the Lady Countess Elizabeth Bathory de Esced. She was a Hungarian countess who was actually known for torturing her servants, eating their flesh, and drinking their blood.
Torture methods were believed to included: Severe beatings over extended periods of time, often leading to death. The burning or mutilation of hands, sometimes also of faces and genetalia. Biting the flesh off the faces, arms and other body parts. Freezing to death. Surgery on victims, often fatal. Starving of victims. Blood draings by way of spikes. And sexual abuse.
Apparently one day a servant girl was brushing her hair and made the mistake of pulling too hard. The countess struck the girl so hard that she drew blood, some of which splattered on the countess. When she cleaned the blood away she saw that her skin had become smoother. From that point on she and her voodoo servant began collecting young girls. She opened a school for girls, non of which ever received any education or were ever seen again. She would torture them and try to draw as much blood from them as possible then bathe in it. Eventually, as corpses began to pile up and the female population began to dwindle, she was discovered and arrested. Her voodoo servant was put to death immediately after her trial(her fingers were ripped out with hot pokers before she was burned at the stake), but because Bathory was a countess, she was sentenced to house arrest, against the King's wishes. Unfortunately, without her supply of young virgin blood(according to the legend) she died shortly after her incarceration(4 years). Because there was a great deal of untouched food found in her room no one knows exactly when she died. A book was later found, written by Lady Bathory, listing 650 women killed between the years of 1585 and 1610(the book was later lost)! Though a few believed that the case of the countess was a conspiracy brought on by politics (she was an extremely well educated woman with a great deal of wealth and power) several testimonies said otherwise. Upon her arrest three women were discovered in her possession, one dead, one dying, and one severely injured.
She was a TRUE vampire.