Vampires, folklore legend or Jewish Blood-Libel?
Dracula’s role as racial outsider results from Stoker giving him Jewish attributes and largely basing him on depictions of the Wandering Jew.
Stoker was very interested in the legend of the Wandering Jew, whose attributes are echoed in Dracula.
Dracula’s evil and supernatural nature and his blasphemy of Christianity ultimately cast him in the role of Antichrist.
Dracula’s debt to the Wandering Jew is most obvious in their shared physical characteristics. An 1873 stage version of Eugene Sue’s novel, produced by George Lander, describes the Wandering Jew as having “long jet-black hair and jet-black eyebrows, dressed in a long black robe” (Malchow 156-7).
In the natural world, the living feed on the dead, but Dracula is the dead who feeds on the living, and by this feeding he prolongs his life.
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Forwarded from Restored Puritanism — Fides et Gens, Inseperable.
