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[QA] Did Dracula study at a school run by Satan?

  FROM: BJ@ALPHA1.CSD.UWM.EDU (BARBARA JEAN KUEHL)
  DATE: 1996/01/01
  
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ACCORDING TO BRAM STOKER'S NOVEL "DRACULA", indicate
whether the following statement is True or False:

        Dracula studied at a secret school run by Satan.

        This is apparently true.  Van Helsing's friend
and colleague, one Arminius of Buda-Pesth University, made
his life's work the study of Dracula and his family.  It was
from Arminius that Van Helsing learned much about the vampire
Dracula.  One of the things he learned was that "The Draculas
were...a great and noble race, though now and again were scions
who were held by their coevals to have had dealings with the Evil
One.  They learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the
mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the
tenth scholar as his due."  (from Mina's Journal 30 September)
Three days later (3 Oct), Seward reports Van Helsing as saying
that Dracula "dared even to attend the Scholomance..."

        I will admit, however, that this is hear-say evidence.
Does anyone know anything about this Scholomance?

                                        Baby Jinx


   
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[QA] How did Dracula become a vampire?

  FROM: BJ@ALPHA1.CSD.UWM.EDU (BARBARA JEAN KUEHL)
  DATE: 1996/01/01
  
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ACCORDING TO BRAM STOKER'S NOVEL "DRACULA":

                Dracula obtained his vampire status

 a ____ after being bitten by another vampire
 b _?__ from Satan
 c ____ when he denounced God and desecrated his altar
 d ____ after drinking the blood of another vampire
 e _T__ by means unknown



        Stoker does not reveal how Dracula became a vampire.
There is no evidence that he denounced God and desecrated his
altar, an explanation which appears to have been invented for
the Coppola movie.  Perhaps he was bitten by or made to drink
the blood of another vampire...who knows?  My best guess is
that he obtained his vampire status as a result of his studies
at the Scholomance.  Perhaps Dracula was that unlucky tenth
scholar forced to pay the devil 'his due'?

                                Baby Jinx

   
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Re: [QA] Did Dracula study at a school run by Satan?

  FROM: JB 
  DATE: 1996/01/09
  
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DEAR MIKI,
  THE SCHOOL YOU REFER TO IS STIKINGLY SIMILAR TO THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL I
ATTENDED AS A YOUNGSTER.  TZIGANE REMINDS ME OF SISTER MARY HIMMLER, MY
HOME ROOM TEACHER!  TO EVIL!


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From: micki13th@aol.com (Micki13th)
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Date: 2 Jan 1996 10:07:48 -0500
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In article <4c8vv5$qbm@uwm.edu>, bj@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Barbara Jean
Kuehl) writes:

>       I will admit, however, that this is hear-say evidence.
>Does anyone know anything about this Scholomance?
>
>

I have heard of the Scholomance, however the source isn't exactly
text-book.  I read a book, _I am Dracula_ by C. Dean Andersson which is
the supposed "true" story of Dracula (however, I am very skeptical as to
the facts because it is written as fiction)  But I would assume that the
author did base at least part of his story in truth, and there is mention
of the Scholomance.  Dracula's "fiance" (for lack of a better word),
Tzigane, takes him here, where he can study evil, prove his love for
Tzigane, marry her, and eventually become a vampire.  If I remember
correctly, the "school" was supposedly in a bowl-like... crater, with
thick forests on the crater walls, a huge lake with some kind of creature
in it in the center, and cavers which led to rooms of all sorts.

Micki
(BTW, regardless of how much of the book was "historically accurate", it
was an excellent book.)

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