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This is from the Travel Channel's Haunted Travels site.
Under Mysterious Journeys the "Hunt for Dracula" is featured.

The vampire is one of the oldest figures in mythology. Ancient Babylon, Egypt, South America and nearly every civilization has its own ancient texts describing creatures of the dead that prey upon the living.

Irish author Bram Stoker may have chose Romania as the setting for his horror novel, "Dracula," for several reasons, but he was intrigued by the country's old-world feel. So he switched the original setting from Austria to Transylvania, an infamous region in Romania.

Nearly 90-percent of Romania belongs to the Easter Orthodox Church. In some areas in Romania, people are really afraid of death and will do everything to avoid death.

One spooky ritual known as the killing of the living dead is a grisly tradition still practiced today in the countryside. The villagers have been known to dig up the dead buried body of the person that is haunting them. They cut out the heart and burned the body. The ashes would be turned into a potion. The people haunted by the dead person would drink the potion to rid them of the haunting spirit ....

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