The Thoughtful Homemaker

I was doing some research on Melusine, an actual mythological being from Anjou and found a weird book “The Dragon Legacy: The Secret of an Ancient Bloodline” by Nicholas De Vere. I was specifically reading about Melusine but as I read on the book got weirder and weirder.

It started out very interesting. I studied linguistics so I saw how he connected words like Vampire to the Turkish “Uber” reminding us that Turkey had at one time a high Gallic population. That is correct. Think Galatians. See the first three letters. Gal then Gallic and in other language Cel- Celtic. So he makes the conclusion that it is possible that a few Gallics words passed into the later Turkish language. He makes his case very well and in conclusion says that Vampire was once a word to describe a seer or an super “uber” person. (uber-oupire-ovpire-vampir-vampire)

Then he went into the word Anjou where the Plantagenet kings come from. He mentions the Egyptian “Ankh” which is used as a representation of Aphrodite. He concludes that around the area of Anjou there were worshipers of a female deity- represented by Ankh. They were the people of Ankh- Ankou- later Anjou. (also Angouleme and the tribe of Andecavi) I thought that was pretty cool and I double checked to make sure his conclusions were not insane and found other books on ancient Celts that don’t say he is wrong, though they have other theories. (no one is really sure about the Ancient Celts as there is not much written about them before the Roman occupation.)

Ok, very interesting theories, enough to make all sorts of neat stories. Then the book got weird. He talks about a super race of people kind of like the Nephilim and that these mythical beings were actually Nephilim. They were a higher race of people. Not the first time I read that theory. I have read somewhere that the stories of the Greek Gods are actually stories of the Nephilim. I think it is great as a theory or fun as a fantasy but cannot accept it as fact. Nicholas De Vere does believe and makes sure we know that he is a direct descendant of the ancient overseers of human kind. He calls himself the Prince of the Dragon Court and considers himself to have superior elven blood. He is an expert on “the black arts” and besides magical pursuits, enjoys music.

That knowledge ruined the book for me. If he had left out the “elven blood” he would have ended up with an interesting fantasy book. Read as fiction, the book is wonderful, kind of like the Da Vinci Code. I didn’t read Da Vinci Code as non-fiction and so enjoyed the book. Too bad that many people will take De Vere seriously. (for those history freaks like myself he is actually Tom Weir. The actual House of De Vere died out in 1625 taken over by the Beauclerks descendants of Charles II and Nell Gwynn. Their son married the last De Vere’s daughter.)