Post B6gqpAv431mXSVR1TU by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B6gqTxKPNu6vE1AgGu by gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
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       #OTD in 1897. First publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Let's celebrate #DraculaDay!The novel was mostly written in the 1890s, and Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes, drawing extensively from folklore and history. He probably found the name "Dracula" in Whitby's public library while on holiday, selecting it because he thought it meant 'devil' in Romanian.Dracula at PG:https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345#Books #Literature
       
 (DIR) Post #B6gqpAv431mXSVR1TU by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
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       @gutenberg_org what does it mean?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6gsy5brMI4tVOpYB6 by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
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       @gutenberg_org He also used the word "Nosferatu," which doesn't seem to mean anything in any language. Ironic, since his character van Helsing is supposed to have been based on the great linguist and translator, Max Müller.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6gt0YGBo8eawUru8u by gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
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       @jmcrookston The name Dracula means “son of Dracul.” In the Romanian language today, dracul means “the devil”—drac is “devil,” ul is “the”—but it is derived from the Latin dracō, “dragon.” (Dragons have been historically associated with Satan, hence the evolution.)https://www.dictionary.com/articles/dracula-fish#:~:text=The%20name%20Dracula%20means%20%E2%80%9Cson,Satan%2C%20hence%20the%20evolution.)#DraculaDay
       
 (DIR) Post #B6gw0a2rTFIGLDL7gm by bazcook@mas.to
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       @gutenberg_org - also was live theatre manager,  which almost guarantees he got to see the darker side of the human psyche.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6h1N07lgnJtMk93iq by scotlit@mastodon.scot
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       @bodhipaksa @gutenberg_org He seems to have taken the word from Emily Gerard’s THE LAND BEYOND THE FOREST (1888):“More decidedly evil is the nosferatu, or vampire, in which every Roumanian peasant believes as firmly as he does in heaven or hell…”She did do her research in the field, & hers is the first recorded use of the term, but its origins are obscure.https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57168
       
 (DIR) Post #B6h1N0LEsi5y2WRoie by gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
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       @scotlit @bodhipaksa Thanks for the clarification, really appreciate it.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6hBv5b0qpaziuiWyO by noctuaminervae@toot.si
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       @gutenberg_org @scotlit @bodhipaksa TIL that there exists a prior source for "nosferatu" published in German by one Wilhelm Schmidt in 1865. (Not the Wilhelm Schmidt who theorized about "original monotheism", he wasn't born yet. This Wilhelm Schmidt was a schoolmaster in Transylvanian Hermannstadt, today's Sibiu.)🧛  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_(word)🧛  https://doaav.blogspot.com/2011/02/unearthing-nosferatu.html🧛  https://books.google.com.au/books?id=IuVAAAAAcAAJ
       
 (DIR) Post #B6hK5WYAI53Pqhs7JA by bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
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       @noctuaminervae @gutenberg_org @scotlit Funnily enough I was reading the Wikipedia article on the etymology of "Nosferatu" on Sunday, after watching a gorgeous restored print of Tod Browning's 1931 "Dracula". Highly recommended, but watch out for the Transylvanian armadilloes! Incidentally, this was not the first film with "Dracula" in the title, but the other, Drakula Halála (Austria, 1921) has been lost.https://archive.org/details/dracula.-1931
       
 (DIR) Post #B6hK5WlzSg74XaL9rE by gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
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       @bodhipaksa @noctuaminervae @scotlit very interesting, thanks for sharing!