... compelled others to eat human flesh; often it was the flesh of their own tortured loved ones. He also made use of the wheel, hot irons, and other forms of medieval torture. Turkish sources that state on one occasion he smeared salt and honey on the soles of the captives" feet and allowed animals to lick them for indefinite periods of ... to chase the Turks after Giurgiu, Radu, his own brother, had taken power in his absence! Once this news reached Dracula's army, the boyars (a Romanian aristocratic class) retreated, under the philosophy that they weren't going to die for the cause of so...

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