... , and he ordered that if anyone should take one of the hanging victims down, he would hang in his place. From descriptions such as these the term "the forest of the impaled" was coined. In addition to physical torture, Dracula had a predilection for various forms of moral torture such as obtaining confessions prior to punishment (he would often then have the confessors tortured anyway) to put a man ... he was in jail, he did not cure himself of the evil habit of catching mice and buying birds at the market, he punished them by impaling them. He cut off the heads of some, the others he ha...

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