As for the impaling, I know a lot of people in that region picked it up from the Turks - the Poles did it in the southeast reaches of their Commonwealth, for example. I've read some arguments that even though Dracula was evidently disturbed, the everyday impalings themselves weren't that exceptionally cruel compared to what everyone else was doing at the time.
Michael would be a good choice, but on the other hand it's Gabriel who in Jewish legends destroys Sodom and Gomorrah and some also credit him with killing the Egyptian firstborns as the last plague of Egypt. He seems to do the dirty work, which fits with Van Helsing the monster killer. He's also the fictional favourite for going crazy and/or falling - see the movie God's Army with Christopher Walken, or Hellblazer the comicbook, or Constantine the movie :)
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Date: 2005-03-25 03:45 am (UTC)As for the impaling, I know a lot of people in that region picked it up from the Turks - the Poles did it in the southeast reaches of their Commonwealth, for example. I've read some arguments that even though Dracula was evidently disturbed, the everyday impalings themselves weren't that exceptionally cruel compared to what everyone else was doing at the time.
Michael would be a good choice, but on the other hand it's Gabriel who in Jewish legends destroys Sodom and Gomorrah and some also credit him with killing the Egyptian firstborns as the last plague of Egypt. He seems to do the dirty work, which fits with Van Helsing the monster killer. He's also the fictional favourite for going crazy and/or falling - see the movie God's Army with Christopher Walken, or Hellblazer the comicbook, or Constantine the movie :)