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Nuernberg Virgin. One tourist official maintained that she was the creation of a master baker. Another insisted thatgiues uus uisjomtea cnromcie together.In his lifetime (1847-1914), Stoker plainly seems to have visited Nuernberg, the locale for his story “The Squaw.”.V ‘‘''l Tt l/x UMUWlllg UJCdefinitive novel on vampirism and otherstories of violence and the supernatural “The Squaw,” first published in 1914’,Page IVThe torture chamber was reputedly in Nuernberg’s massive castle.THE STARS AND STRIPES^ ~ ~ -- # M I1IUI »#V V Icame. You may earnestly disbelieve in demons by day, but your disbelief becomes a thread-bare cloak in the cold mists of night, especially in Transylvania. I drove tiredly on. By sunup’ I saw the storybook spires of Sighisoara. a considerable reward. The scenic richness of Romania has never been fully appreciated or explored by westerners perhaps (overlooking the ‘political reasons) because of ttfl claims by Stoker and others that vampires roamed at night, seeking blood nourishment before returning to their coffins at dawn.One quip, popular among English-speaking travelers, is that Romanian tourism will peak only when the countryfinds an abandoned castle—or buildsone—that can be called the Dracula Hilton.Stoker chose well when he picked “one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe” as a setting for his vampire novel,Bistritz, the town nearest Castle Dracula m the book, is actually Bistrita.east-northeast of Cluj in the first rise of the Transylvanian Carpathians. That area of overpowering peaks of granite and schist reaching a mile or more above sea level was, as I can testify, a great place for Stoker to place Count Dracula s solitary retreat.*s mainly associated withthe Slavic areas of Europe according to the ‘demonology” section of Encyclopaedia Britannica.**le PeoPle. having licensed the undead to prey upon the living, have also contrived defenses against such evil spirits as Britannica records: “The corpse of the vampire, which may often be recognized by its unnaturally ruddv and fresh appearance, should be stakedbe'cutoff ^fave or its head shouldiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiniuinnmuin,,!• •. after first heiexisted and thencan I be blamefl foivif there ivas a «/*Sunday, Of
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European Stars and Stripes
Darmstadt, Hesse, DE
Sun, Oct 04, 1970
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