... also impaled through the heart, the navel, the stomach, and the chest. Nor was impalement the only form of punishment. Dracula decapitated, cut off noses, ears, sexual organs, and limbs. He blinded, strangled, hanged, burned, boiled, skinned, roasted, hacked ("like cabbage," specifies a German narrative), nailed, buried alive, and had his victims stabbed. He also exposed them to the elements and to wild animals, and built screw trapdoors to ... ended up leading to the Turkish control of Chilia, a fortress along the Danube, which was normally under Wallachian control. The only motive for...

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