The Dracula name fuses the devil with the Turkic Hun lineage

Evidence

Another monstrous aspect of Dracula’s monstrosity is situated in his identity as the devil, a product of the hybrid race that is signified by the Count’s family name. He admits this lineage when he says, “What devil or what witch was ever so great as Atilla, whose blood flows through these veins.” Although the vampire is not associated with the devil in Romanian folk literature, the etymology contributes to the lore surrounding Vlad the Impaler and other European tales about vampires. The Romanian word for devil is, after all, dracul. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 556

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the etymology dracul = devil as a manufactured link between monster and Muslim-associated lineage.