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Episode 30: Vlad Dracula, the Impaler

Half-Arsed History

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The Mischievous Tyranny of Dracula

stories are flying around Europe about this bloke. And they include all sorts of incredible stories about what he gets. One publication was rather ridiculously titled about a mischievous tyrant called Dracula. It talks about how he would boil people alive in a big cup of cauldron and burn mother, mother's alive with their newborn infants. But later on, you know, war with the Ottomans, the Ottoman troops reported being in a forest of actual tens of thousands of impaled corpses.

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