Oct 28, 2008 · What a Tax Lawyer Dug Up on 'Dracula' By John J. Miller Oct. 28, 2008 12:01 am ET Print Text "There are such things as vampires," says Dr. Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula." The famous...
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Oct 30, 2018 · October 30, 2018. 0. 504. There is the long running lawyer joke that attorneys are vampires. However, the story of Dracula features an attorney who was retained by a creature of the night for leasing property in England. In the 1931 film, Renfield travels to Transylvania and quickly falls under Dracula’s spell.
Nov 09, 2012 · That’s right: it was dug up in a barn in the 1980s, unearthed by a tax lawyer. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen bought it at auction and has locked it away. Few have seen it, and Allen makes anyone who looks at it sign a non-disclosure agreement. And who can blame him?
Lawyers have long-been been regarded by society as blood sucking vampires who prey on the vulnerable and weak for their own gain. But ironically, lawyers are well-represented in Stoker’s famous 1897 work, Dracula, as the heroes of the story. For example, lead characters Jonathan Harker and Van Helsing.
Jonathan Harker witnesses Dracula crawling down the castle wall in Harker’s clothes. He realises Dracula’s dark motive is to appear publicly and remove the possibility of Harker’s disappearance to be traced to Dracula’s castle.
Lucy Westernra and Mina Harker are victims of assault. Lucy, in particular, is preyed upon at night by Dracula when she is regularly bitten and her blood exsanguinated.
When Dracula bites Lucy Westenra, he infects her blood. Her blood poisoning places her under his spell where she is compelled to do his bidding as the ‘bloofer lady.’
Dracula frequently lets himself into the houses of his victims without permission through windows and locked doors.
Lucy Westenra’s mother dies from shock when she sees Dracula in the form of a wolf at Lucy’s window.
The question of whether Dracula could be charged with murder is a tricky one since Lucy Westenra did not die, but rather became undead.