DRACULA: A PROJECT

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DRACULAA PROJECT
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INDEX
1. VAMPIRES AN INTRODUCTION 1.1
Definition 1.2 Appearance and history 1.3
Vampire fiction 1.4 How is a vampires
body? 1.5 Vampire characteristics
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INDEX

• 2. VAMPIRES IN HISTORY
• 2.1 Elizabeth Bathory
• 2.2 Peter Kürten
• 2.3 Vlad the Impaler

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INDEX

• VAMPIRES IN CINEMA
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Francis Ford Coppolas Dracula
• 3.3 Interview with the vampire
• 3.4 The Twilight Saga

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INDEX

• 4. VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE BRAM STOKERS DRACULA
  (I)
• 4.1 Vlad Dracul vs Count Dracula
• 4.2 Bram Stoker Life and works
• 4.3 Summary

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INDEX

• 5. OUR READING BOOK BRAM STOKERS DRACULA (II)
• 5.1 Character study
• 5.2 Vocabulary

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GROUP 1VAMPIRES, AN INTRODUCTION
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VAMPIRES AN INTRODUCTION

• DEFINITION Vampires are mythological or
  folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the
  life essence (generally in the form of blood) of
  living creatures. In folkloric tales, vampires
  often visited loved ones and caused mischief or
  deaths in the
• neighbourhoods they inhabited
• when they were alive.

Vampiren, by Edward Munch
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VAMPIRES AN INTRODUCTION

• APPEARANCE They wore shrouds and were
  often described as swollen
• and with dark face.
• This is markedly different from modern
  fictional portrayals of gaunt, pale vampires
  beginning in the early
• 19th century.

Vampire make-up
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VAMPIRES AN INTRODUCTION

• HISTORY Vampiric entities have been recorded in
  many cultures and the "belief in vampires and
  bloodsucking demons is as old as man himself".
• However, the term vampire was not popularized
  until the early 18th century, after an influx of
  vampire superstition into Western Europe from
  areas where vampire legends were frequent, such
  as the Balkans and Eastern Europe,.
• This increased level of vampire superstition in
  Europe led to mass hysteria and in some cases
  resulted in corpses actually being staked and
  people being accused of vampirism

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VAMPIRES AN INTRODUCTION

• VAMPIRE FICTION
• The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of
  modern fiction was born in 1819 with the
  publication of The Vampyre by John Polidori.It
  was the most influential vampire work of the
  early 19th century.
• However, it is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula
  that is remembered
• as the quintessential vampire novel and which
  provided the basis
• of modern vampire fiction. Dracula drew on
  earlier mythologies of werewolves and similar
  imaginary demons and "was to voice the anxieties
  of an age", and the "fears of late Victorian
  patriarchy".
• The success of this book spawned a distinctive
  vampire genre, still popular in the 21st century,
  with books, films, video games, and television
  shows. The vampire is adominant figure in the
  horror genre.

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HOW IS A VAMPIRES BODY?

• EYES Vampires pupils expand very much and they
  can see at night. The sun blinds vampires.
• EARS Vampires have big ears. They can find their
  way through sounds, just like bats!
• TEETH Vampires canine teeth are very, very long
  to bite their victims neck.
• SKIN very light and thin. They are very
  sensitive to sun radiation.
• NAILS They are hard and they keep growing. They
  let vampires break the skin of their victims and
  drink their blood quickly.
• LUNGS Vampires dont breathe. They get oxygen
  from their victims blood.
• MUSCLES their muscular fibres are very elastic.
  They are very strong, too.

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VAMPIRE CHARACTERISTICS

• Vampires can convert into
• insects, bats,rats or wolves.
• The most mentioned in popular
• culture is the bat form.
• They dont reflect in mirrors, they dont have a
  shadow, maybe because they dont have a soul.

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VAMPIRE CHARACTERISTICS

• Vampires demonic nature makes them hate
  christian
• symbols. Thats why they run away when someone
  uses
• a christian cross or holy water. They cant go
  across
• consecrated land such as churches.
• They hate garlic and they are vulnerable to
  sunlight.

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VAMPIRE CHARACTERISTICS

• They are indestructible using common means and
  they
• are extremely strong and fast, but they weaken
  next to
• water currents
• They have a natural affinity with magic,
  especially
• with black magic and necromancy.
• They feed on their victims blood.

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ARE YOU READY?

• AHHHHHH!
• This is
• Christopher Lee
• as Dracula

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GROUP 2

• VAMPIRES IN HISTORY

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VAMPIRES IN HISTORY

• Some people drank blood for pleasure or
• with magical purposes.
• ELIZABETH BATHORY drank
• blood in the 17th century
• to keep eternal youth.

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VAMPIRES IN HISTORY

• PETER KÜRTEN (1883-1931), the vampire of
• Dusseldorf, drank animal or human blood
• and he felt great
• pleasure.

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THE REAL DRACULA

• PRINCE VLAD DRACULA
• The Impaler
• Vlad Dracula, later named Vlad the Impaler
  after his favourite form of torture, was a
  15th century Romanian prince who ruled with an
  iron fist.
• This infamous ruler controlled his subjects
  with such violence that he is now referred to
  as the bloodiest ruler in history.

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THE REAL DRACULA VLAD THE IMPALER
Vlad was born in Transylvania in 1430 or 1431.
His father, the warrior Vlad Dracul, was a
member of a secret society of knights called
the order of the Dragon. This society was
formed to fight and defeat the Turks, as well
as secure the throne of Wallachia (a town
located in present-day Romania). Young Vlad was
nicknamed Dracula after his father. In Romanian,
Dracul translates to dragon or devil, and
the a stands for son of. So Dracula
literally translates to son of the dragon or
son of the devil.
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THE REAL DRACULA VLAD THE IMPALER

• In 1444 Dracul was travelling with Dracula and
  his
• youngest son across the Danube River when they
• were captured by the Turks. Dracula was
  imprisoned
• for four years. These years are thought to be the
  
• beginning of Vlad Draculas violent nature. It
  wasnt
• long before Dracul was assassinated and Draculas
  
• brother was buried alive by the Ruler of Hungary,
  
• Jamos Hunyadi. Fearful for his life, Dracula
  joined
• Hunyadi who taught him cunning and severe
  military
• tactics that would soon secure Dracula the
  throne of
• Wallachia.

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THE REAL DRACULA VLAD THE IMPALER
As Prince, Vlad Dracula continued to battle the
Turks. Those taken hostage were impaled (a large
pole was driven through their body). But it was
not only Draculas enemies who suffered.
Many townspeople were also subject to his wrath.

Woodcut of Vlad surrounded by
his victims
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THE REAL DRACULA VLAD THE IMPALER
One story tells of Dracula noticing a peasant
man who was wearing a shirt that was too short.
When Dracula asked the mans wife why the man
was improperly dressed,she said she was too
busy cooking and cleaning to sew. She was
immediately impaled. Graciously, Dracula chose a
new wife for the man. He made sure to show the
new wife what had happened to the old so that
she would not make the same mistake.
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THE REAL DRACULA VLAD THE IMPALER

• Dracula died in battle in 1476. He
  was promptly
• decapitated by order of the Turkish
  sultan.
• His head was then sent to the sultan who
• displayed it, fittingly, on a stake for all
• to see. He is buried in front of the altar
• of the Church of Snagov Monastery.

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THE REAL DRACULA VLAD THE IMPALER

• Although gone, rumors of Vlad Dracula and his
  relentless temper
• spread throughout Europe. Stories of his villainy
  were published,
• read, and reread and it was these stories that
  led Bram Stoker to
• create the infamous Count Dracula we know today.
• The BRAN CASTLE, near Brasov is
• said to be one of Draculas residences.
• It can be visited by tourists.
• Do you want to have a look?

DRACULAS CASTLE
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GROUP 3

• VAMPIRES IN CINEMA

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VAMPIRES IN CINEMA
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VAMPIRE FILMS

• Nosferatu, directed by F. W.
  Murnau and featuring the first film
  portrayal of Dracula. Although names
  and characters were intended to mimic
  Dracula's, Murnau could not obtain
  permission from Stoker's widow, and had
  to alter many aspects of the film.

• Universal's Dracula (1931), starring Bela Lugosi
  as the count
• was the first talking film to portray Dracula.

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VAMPIRE FILMS

• The successful 1958 Dracula starring Lee was
  followed by
• seven sequels. Lee returned as Dracula in all
  but two of these and became well known in the
  role.
• Later films showed more diversity in plotline,
  with some focusing on the vampire-hunter such as
  Blade.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy, released in
  1992, foreshadowed a vampiric presence on
  television, with adaptation to a long-running hit
  TV series of the same name.
• Still others showed the vampire as protagonist
  such 1994's Interview with the Vampire The
  Vampire Chronicles and its indirect sequel Queen
  of the Damned. Bram Stoker's Dracula was a
  noteworthy 1992 film which became the then
  highest grossing vampire film ever. This increase
  of interest in vampiric plotlines led to the
  vampire being depicted in movies such as Van
  Helsing,

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FRANCIS FORD COPPOLAS BRAM STOKERS DRACULA

• It is a 1992 horror-romance thriller
• directed by F. F. Coppola, based on
• the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.
• It stars G.Oldman as Count Dracula,
• W. Ryder as Mina Harker,
• A. Hopkins as Professor Van
• Helsing, Keanu Reeves as
• Jonathan Harker and Sadie Frost
• as Lucy Westenra.

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FRANCIS FORD COPPOLAS BRAM STOKERS DRACULA

• It had a positive critical reception and was a
  box office hit.
• It also had a significant cultural impact,
  spawning a video
• game, a board game, a comic book adaptation,
  collectible cards and some action figures
  and model sets.
• The closing theme "Love Song for a
  Vampire was written and performed by A.
  Lennox.

See film
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

• Interview with the Vampire The Vampire
  Chronicles is a 1994
• film, based on the 1976 novel Interview with the
  Vampire by Anne
• Rice. It was directed by Neil Jordan, and stars
  T. Cruise, B. Pitt,
• A. Banderas and K. Dunst.
• In modern-day San Francisco,
• reporter Daniel Malloy interviews
• a man named Louis who claims
• to be a vampire and tells the
• story of his past.
• See film

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THE TWILIGHT SAGA

• TWILIGHT is a 2008 romantic-fantasy film.
• It is the first film in The Twilight Saga series,
• directed by Catherine Hardwicke and based
• on the novel of the same name by Stephenie
• Meyer. It focuses on the development of a
• personal relationship between human teenager
• Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and vampire
• Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), and the
• subsequent efforts of Cullen and his family
• to keep Swan safe from a separate group of
• hostile vampires.

See film
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THE TWILIGHT SAGA

• NEW MOON is a 2009 film based on
• Stephenie Meyer's 2006 novel New Moon.
• It is the 2nd film in The Twilight Saga series
• and is the sequel to 2008's Twilight, also
• based on Meyer's previous novel.
• Directed by Chris Weitz, the film stars
• Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and
• Taylor Lautner, reprising their roles as
• Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and Jacob
• Black, respectively.
• See film

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GROUP 4

• VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE
• BRAM STOKERS DRACULA (I)

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VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE BRAM STOKERS DRACULA

• The most famous vampire in literature
  appeared in 1897.
• That year the Irish writer BRAM STOKER
  published his novel Dracula. It made Vlad
  the Impaler famous worldwide.

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BRAM STOKERS DRACULA

• Stoker read the stories about Dracula printed
• In the 15th-16th centuries. He was surprised
• by his acts of cruelty and decided to make him
• his character. He also read some books about
• Transylvania and thought that this "exotic
• land would be a proper setting for Dracula.
• Draculas qualities he is immortal. He has
  got
• supernatural powers and he drinks human
• blood!

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COMPARISONVLAD VS COUNT DRACULA

VLAD DRACUL
COUNT DRACULA
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COMPARISONVLAD VS COUNT DRACULA

• Stoker used Vlad only as a source of
• inspiration. In his novel, Dracula is not prince
• Vlad the Impaler, but a Transylvanian count
• living in a mysterious castle where he lured his
• victims. His story takes place in the Bistritza
• area, and the castle lies near the Carpathian
• Mountains. As Stoker had never visited
• Transylvania, most places and happenings were
• pure fiction.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

• BRAM STOKER LIFE
• He was born in Dublin in 1847.
• After finishing university there
• he worked for the government.
• He married a Dublin girl. Stoker
• was very interested in the theatre and in 1878 he
• moved to London, where he became the manager of a
• famous actor. Together they ran the sucessful
  Lyceum
• Theatre in London. He died in 1912.

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BRAM STOKER

• BRAM STOKER WORKS
• His novel Dracula was published in 1897.
• There have been stories about vampires in
• Eastern Europe for a very long time. Stoker,
• who worked on his noveL for four years,
• probably knew about these stories. He said
• that the Dracula story came to him in a
• nightmare one night after a large dinner of
• crab meat.

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BRAM STOKER

• BRAM STOKER CONCLUSION
• Stoker is often called the least-known author
• of the best-Known book. He wrote many
• other books, but it is because of Dracula that
• we remember him today.
• There have been many films about Count
• Dracula and the book, which has never been
• out of print, is as popular today as it was a
• hundred years ago.

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BRAM STOKERS DRACULA SYNOPSIS

• In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a
  castle . It is the home of Count Dracula - a
  dark, lonely place and at night the wolves howl
  around the walls.
• In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from
  England to do business with the Count. But
  Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Draculas
  castle. Strange things happen at night and very
  soon he begins to feel afraid. And he is right to
  be afraid, because Count Dracula is one of the
  Un-Dead - a vampire that drinks the blood of
  living people

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DRACULA A SUMMARY

• In the spring of 1875, Jonathan Harker travels
  to Transylvania, on a business visit to the home
  of Count Dracula . Jonathan does not really want
  to go because in a few months time he is getting
  married to his beautiful Mina and he does not
  want to leave her.

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DRACULA A SUMMARY

• While he is staying in Castle Dracula , he
• keeps a diary. And every day he has more
• and more terrible things to write. Why
• does he see Count Dracula only at night?
• Why cant he see the Count in the mirror?
• And who are the three beautiful women, with
  their red mouths and long sharp teeth that come
  to his room at night?
• Listen to Jonathans diary
• 2. I am in danger

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DRACULA A SUMMARY

• At home in England , Mina is staying with her
  friend Lucy in a town by the sea. She waits for
  Jonathans letters, but they do not come, and
  Mina is afraid. Perhaps Jonathan is ill, or in
  danger

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DRACULA A SUMMARY

• Mina is not afraid for herself, of course,
• or for her friend Lucy. What danger can
• there possibly be for two young women
• in a quiet English seaside town?

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GROUP 5

• VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE
• BRAM STOKERS DRACULA (II)

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CHARACTER STUDY

• COUNT DRACULA - A centuries-old vampire and
  Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula inhabits a
  crumbling castle in the Carpathian Mountains.
  Beneath a veneer of aristocratic charm, the count
  possesses a dark and evil soul. He can assume the
  form of an animal, control the weather, and he is
  stronger than twenty men. His powers are limited,
  howeverfor instance, he cannot enter a victims
  home unless invited, cannot cross water unless
  carried, and is rendered powerless by daylight.
• Read an in-depth analysis of Count Dracula.

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CHARACTER STUDY

• JONATHAN HARKER - A solicitor, or lawyer, whose
  firm sends him to Transylvania to conclude a real
  estate transaction with Dracula. Young and naïve,
  Harker quickly finds himself a prisoner in the
  castle and barely escapes with his life. He
  demonstrates a fierce curiosity to discover the
  true nature of his captor and a strong will to
  escape. Later, after becoming convinced that the
  count has moved to London, Harker emerges as a
  brave and fearless fighter.

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CHARACTER STUDY

• MINA MURRAY - Jonathan Harkers fiancée. Mina is
  a practical young woman who works as a
  schoolmistress. Eventually victimized by Dracula
  herself, Mina is also the best friend of the
  counts first victim in the novel, Lucy Westenra.
  Mina is in many ways the heroine of the novel,
  embodying purity, innocence, and Christian
  faithvirtues she maintains despite her suffering
  at the vampires hands. She is intelligent and
  resourceful, and her research leads Van Helsings
  men to Castle Dracula.

Read an in-depth analysis of Mina
Murray.
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CHARACTER STUDY

• LUCY WESTENRA - Minas best friend and an
  attractive, vivacious young woman. The first
  character in the novel to fall under Draculas
  spell, Lucy becomes a vampire, which compromises
  her much-praised chastity and virtue, and
  banishes her soul from the promise of eternal
  rest. Determined that such an end is unfit for an
  English lady of Lucys caliber, Van Helsings
  crew hunts down the demon she has become and
  kills it, following the rituals of vampire
  slaying, and thus restoring Lucys soul to her
  body and to heaven.
• Read an in-depth analysis of Lucy Westenra.

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CHARACTER STUDY

• VAN HELSING - A Dutch professor, described by
  his former pupil Dr. Seward as a philosopher and
  metaphysician, and one of the most advanced
  scientists of his day. Called upon to cure the
  ailing Lucy Westenra, Van Helsings contributions
  are essential in the fight against Dracula.
  Unlike his comrades, Van Helsing is not blinded
  by the limitations of Western medicine he knows
  that he faces a force that cannot be treated with
  traditional science and reason. Knowledgeable
  about vampire folklore, Van Helsing becomes
  Draculas chief antagonist and the leader of the
  group that hunts Dracula down and destroys him.
• 
  
• Read an in-depth analysis of Van Helsing.

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CHARACTER STUDY

• JOHN SEWARD - A talented young doctor, formerly
  Van Helsings pupil. Seward is the administrator
  of an insane asylum not far from Draculas
  English home. Throughout the novel, Seward
  conducts ambitious interviews with one of his
  patients, Renfield, in order to understand better
  the nature of life-consuming psychosis. Although
  Lucy turns down Sewards marriage proposal, his
  love for her remains, and he dedicates himself to
  her care when she suddenly takes ill. After her
  death, he remains dedicated to fighting the
  count.

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CHARACTER STUDY

• ARTHUR HOLMWOOD - Lucys fiancé and a friend of
  her other suitors. Arthur is the son of Lord
  Godalming and inherits that title upon his
  fathers death. In the course of his fight
  against Draculas dark powers, Arthur does
  whatever circumstances demand he is the first to
  offer Lucy a blood transfusion, and he agrees to
  kill her demonic form.

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VOCABULARY

• VERBS
• BECOME to change and begin to be something new.
  Convertirse
• BELIEVE to think that something is true.creer
• HOWL to make a loud, crying sound. aullar
• KISS to touch someone with your mouth to show
  love.besar
• SHAVE to cut the hair off the face. afeitarse
• SHIVER to shake with cold or fear. temblar

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VOCABULARY

• NOUNS
• CARRIAGE a kind of car pulled by horses, for
  carrying people. carruaje
• CART a kind of open car pulled by horses, for
  carrying people or things. carro
• CASTLE a big strong building that can keep
  enemies out. castillo
• CHURCHYARD a place by a church where dead people
  lie under the ground. cementerio
• CLOAK a big, loose coat with no sleeves for the
  arms. capa
• COACH a large kind of car pulled by horses,
  for carrying people. carruaje
• COFFIN a box in which a dead person lies. ataud

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VOCABULARY

• COUNT a title for a nobleman in some countries.
  conde
• CURTAIN a piece of cloth that covers a window.
  cortina
• EARTH dirt from the ground. tierra
• FEAR you feel this way when you are afraid.
  miedo
• GARLIC a plant with white flowers and a strong
  taste and smell which is used in cooking. ajo
• HAMMER a heavy tool used for hitting things
  (e.g. Nails into a wall). martillo
• HATE very strong dislike, opposite of love.
  odio
• HEART the organ inside your chest that pushes
  the blood roung the body. corazón
• HELL the place where bad people go after they
  are dead.infierno
• ICE water that is hard because iti is frozen
  (very cold). hielo

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VOCABULARY

• MIRROR a piece of glass where you can see
  yourself. espejo
• PROFESSOR an important teacher at university.
  profesor
• SERVANT someone who works in another persons
  home. sirviente
• THOUGHT something that you think. pensamiento
• TOMB a small stone building under or above the
  ground for a
• dead person. tumba
• VAMPIRE the body of a dead person that comes
  alive at night and drinks the blood of living
  people.vampiro
• WOLF a wild animal that looks like a dog. lobo
• WOUND a place on the body where something or
  somebody as cut or hurt you. herida

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VOCABULARY

• ADJECTIVES
• FRIGHTENED very afraid. asustado
• HOLY special because it is from the church.
  sagrado
• HORRIBLE very bad, terrible, making you very
  afraid or unhappy.
• LOVELY nice, beautiful. Bonito, agradable
• PALE with little colour in the face. pálido
• SHARP with an edge that cuts easily (e.g. A
  sharp knife). afilado
• WEAK not strong. débil