Dracul’ Vlad became quite known for his brutal punishment techniques; he often ordered people to be skinned, boiled, decapitated, blinded, strangled, hanged, burned, roasted, hacked, nailed, buried alive, stabbed, etc. He also liked to cut off noses, ears, sexual organs and limbs. But his favorite method was impalement on stakes, hence the surname "Tepes" which means "The Impaler" in the Romanian language. (1) What is the topic? Kurt W. Treptow’s Dracula: Essays on the Life …showed first 75 words of 287 total…

…showed last 75 words of 287 total…Impaler’s method of impaling people not only scared the oncoming troops, but made them look toward his troops with much trepidation and apprehension. If they were a captured as prisoners of was the might suffer the same grizzly death as those lying before them on the stakes or be left to live the rest of their lives without certain body parts. During Vlad’s long reign as king his crown was almost never unchallenged.