The Draculas were, says Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and again were scions who were held by thier coevals to have had dealing with the Evil One. They learned his secrets in the Scholomance amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due. In the records are such words as "stregoica" - witch, "ordog" and "pokol" - Satan and hell; and in one manuscript this very Dracula is spoken as "wampyr", which we all undertand too well.  There have been from the loins of this very one great men and good women, and thier graves make sacred the earth where alone this foulness can dwell. For it is not the least of its terrors that this evil thing is rooted deep in all good; in soil barren of holy memories it cannot rest.

- Bram Stoker, Dracula