| “ | I was not alone. The room was the same, unchanged in any way since I came into it; I could see along the floor, in the brilliant moonlight, my own footsteps marked where I had disturbed the long accumulation of dust. In the moonlight opposite me were three young women, ladies by their dress and manner. I thought at the time that I must be dreaming when I saw them, for, though the moonlight was behind them, they threw no shadow on the floor. |
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— Jonathan Harker, Dracula
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| Vampire Sisters | |||
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| Naming | |||
| Others | Weird Sisters Brides of Dracula | ||
| Personal information | |||
| Species | Vampires | ||
| Gender | Female | ||
| Place of origin | Transylvania | ||
| Affiliation | Count Dracula | ||
| Current status | Destroyed | ||
| Biology | |||
| Body type | Humanoid | ||
| Diet | Blood | ||
| Abilities | Supernatural and psychic abilities | ||
| Sentience | Sentient | ||
| Sapience | Sapient | ||
| Behind the scenes | |||
| Universe | Dracula | ||
| Created by | Bram Stoker | ||
The three unnamed vampire sisters are companions, as well as possibly servants and/or lovers of Count Dracula, and reside in his castle in Transylvania, where he habitually brings in victims for them.
In the original novel Dracula, by Bram Stoker, they're referred to only as "sisters" - with Harker once describing them as "those weird sisters". Elsewhere in popular culture they're most commonly referred to as the "brides of Dracula", even though their relationship to him is not explicit. Two of the women are described as dark-haired and have aquiline noses, much like the Count's. The third one is blonde, with "great wavy masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires". All three have been described as extremely beautiful, but also exert an uneasy feeling that causes one to fear them, much like Dracula himself does.
Although they didn't accompany Dracula in his trip to England, the sisters were eventually destroyed by Van Helsing after he and his party followed Dracula back to Transylvania and invaded his castle. The procedure he used to destroy them was the same he had used with Lucy Westenra: a stake through the heart, followed by decapitating them and filling their mouths with garlic.
Appearances[]
- Dracula, by Bram Stoker (1897)
Notes[]
- The fact that they're referred to as "those weird sisters" may also be a reference to the Three Witches from William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, who are also known as the "Weird Sisters".
- At one point in the novel, the three vampires also refer to Mina Harker as "sister". At this point, Mina had been bitten by Dracula and was due to become a vampire as well unless the curse was broken. This suggests that the three "sisters" aren't biologically related, and simply called sisters because all were turned into vampires by Dracula.
- It's possible that Stoker intended the fair-haired one to be the same character as Countess Dolingen from his short story "Dracula's Guest". This is supported by the fact that Harker seems to find her strangely familiar.
- In the 2004 film Van Helsing, Dracula has three brides named Aleera, Marishka and Verona.