Resting In The Garden

My favorite part about 1931 Dracula is that there are armadillos running around Dracula’s castle.

Apparently in the 20s and 30s, armadillos weren’t very commonly known, so moviemakers would use them wherever they needed some creepy, ‘demonic’ animal running around. So there were a lot of armadillos in early filmmaking, and it was often people’s only source of reference for armadillos.

Ok but what about Dracula’s Bee.

the armadillos I get, but I still don’t understand the solitary bee

It’s not a bee it’s a Jerusalem Cricket, included for basically the same reason as the armadillo

While that is a cool and good clarification, my question stands

this is all the same reason they used hyenas for the werewolves/fiendish wolves