Well the legend of Dracula (the first vampire) originates from my country.But digging more to to this hitorical problem it seems that Vlad Tepes( the man asociated with Dracula) wasnt a bloodcuker affterall (tho he kill some dosen of people that was against him and that was for a good reason...he killed them...probably 40 of them by driving them trough a woddean pole...the entry point was the anus...sorry for the term) And the legend appeard after he passed out...but the first time the name Dracula was mentioned was in 1898 in an english book or manuscript (really dont remember) and Tepes died somewhere 1400. And his nickname was Drăculea Ţepeş (Ţepeş come from the fact that a woden pole is name teapa) and the name Drăculea really comes from his father that was nicknamed Dracul ( Devil ) because the mark of his order was a Dragon (same translation to my (languadge) so you see here that the english people started the dracula legend and Dracula is just an Dracul with an a at the end and simply dosent relate to vampires witch are a bad farytale.