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The Life and Mind of DamnBlackHeart
This is to help me stay actively writing. So expect to see rants, tips on writing, thoughts on subjects, me complaining of boredom, reviews, anime, movies, video games, conventions, tv shows and whatever life throws at me.
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What I've Learned: Vampires |
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What many people don’t realize is that they can learn many things from fiction. Such as, how to protect yourself against the supernatural, in this case vampires. Here are some of the things that I’ve learned from TV shows, movies, and video games about them. Just remember that not all vampires are the same so figure out what vampire you’re dealing with and you’ll know how to deal with them. Bonus: Can you figure out where each of the information/reference comes from?
Vampires:
Driving a wooden stake to their heart is fatal. But sometimes it depends on what the stake is made of in order for it to work. Such as some vampires can only die if the stake is made of silver or a certain type of wood. For certain vampires you need to make the stake out of either the Ash, Hawthorn or Oak tree. Sometimes it doesn’t matter as long as they’re stake in the heart.
For certain vampires staking them in the heart doesn’t kill them. It just paralyze them, putting them into a death-like state, but if the stake is remove they will “come alive” again.
Sunlight can kill them, hence the reason why they are nocturnal. However, there are some vampire that don’t “turn to ash” in the sunlight, but do become weaken by it. While there are others that are completely immune to the sunlight.
If they sparkle in the sunlight then they are definitely a vampire.
Some vampires can be healed by moonlight.
Sometimes when a vampire is destroy by sunlight, leaving only their ashes they can regenerate if fresh blood touches it. They’ll be good as new, as though they weren’t obliterate by the sun.
Get yourself some UV grenades. When activated, they create an intense burst of solar-style UV light that toasts any vampire unlucky enough to be caught in it.
Modifying regular weapons can work to your advantage, especially when you know their weakness. For example, you know they’re weak against garlic and holy water, then get yourself a paintball gun and fill the paintballs with chopped up garlic and holy water.
Some vampires wear special rings (or some type of jewelry) that protect them from the sunlight’s fatal affect on them. It’s been said that those items contain lapis lazuliwhich is a mystical stone enchanted by witches to allow vampires to walk freely in the sunlight.
Decapitation is fatal for most vampires, not all. For others it paralyzes them or doesn’t do anything because they can regenerate themselves.
There are vampires that can be killed or immobilized by drowning, depending on what kind they are.
Fire can hurt them or kill them. Older vampires have higher tolerance for it.
Silver can hurt them or kill them, depending on the vampire and how you use it. For example a silver stake to the heart can be fatal for a vampire. While for another it won’t kill them but will hurt/weaken them.
Having garlic above the doors, at the windows or around your neck can ward off vampires. Even by rubbing it in chimneys, doorknobs and whatnot. Garlic stinks and to vampires their heightened sense of smell makes it too strong for them to be around it. For others it burns their skin if they touch it.
Crucifix, rosary, and other holy symbols aren’t fatal to vampires. They are actually a good repellent. To some it’s an annoyance and irritating to them if they touch them or when they’re in their presence. For others holy symbols are useless and can only work if the vampires believe in/have a strong faith of that religious symbol.
Vampires can’t enter your home or your vehicle without invitation. They also can’t enter consecrated grounds, such as those of churches, or temples, or cross running water. Speaking of running water, vampires are said to have a weakness of it. In some cases it can vaporize them, in others they are merely repelled and forced to find another route.
Holy water is a good repellent and often lethal if you drench/drown them with it.
Mirrors have been used to ward off vampires when placed, facing outwards, on a door because they don’t have reflections. It doesn’t harm them at all, but because mirrors can reveal that they are vampires they try to avoid them to keep their identity intact.
Vampirism is rarely curable but there is said to be a cure — a potion that does exists. But this cure only works if the vampire has not yet drunk human blood and can acquire the blood of the vampire that turned him or her.
Dead man’s blood is poison to vampires. Large quantities of it can paralyze a vampire, making them very weak. It also causes any wounds that the vampire has a lot longer to heal.
Burning saffron, skunk’s cabbage and trillium blocks a vampires from smelling you and keeps them from tracking you down by it.
Note: This is part three. For part two it is What I’ve Learned - Demons and for part one it is What I’ve Learned - Ghosts
 DamnBlackHeart · Fri Oct 05, 2012 @ 02:40am · 0 Comments |
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