To which they answered: "This is our custom. We are not obliged to take our skullcaps off under any circumstances, even an audience with the sultan or the Holy Roman Emperor." Dracula then said, "In all fairness, I want to strengthen and recognize your customs." They thanked him bowing to him and added, "Sire we shall always sere you with your interests if you show us such goodness, and we shall praise your greatness everywhere." Then in a deliberate manner this tyrant and killer did the following: he took some big iron nails and planted them in a circle in the head of each ambassador. "Believe me," he said while his attendants nailed the skullcaps on the heads of the envoys, "this is the manner in which I will strengthen your customs.".
These gruesome acts of cruelty upon the innocent (whom Dracula still believed guilty under the laws of the cross.) Were merely some of the illicit acts carried out by this so-called "cruel tyrant" another account recalls Dracula's customized dealership of the poverty situation in Tirgovise, a Transylvanian capital established in Wallachia, and the location of Dracula's castle. .
Having asked the old, the ill, the lame, the poor, the blind, and the vagabonds to a large dining hall in Tirgoviste, Dracula ordered that a feast be prepared for them. On the appointed day, Tirgoviste groaned under the wait of the large number of beggars who had come. The prince's servants passed out a batch of clothes to each one. Then they led the beggars into a large mansion where tables had been set. The beggars marveled at the prince's generosity, and they spoke among themselves: "Truly it is a prince's kind of grace." Then they started eating. And what do you think they saw before them: a meal such as one would find on the princes own table, wines and all the best things to eat which weigh you down. The beggars had a feast that became legendary. They ate and drank greedily.