Don't Bite Down
Here's an interesting little article about a 'vampire' found in an archaeological dig in Venice.
Forget stakes in the heart or decapitation, just stuff a brick in his mouth to stop a pesky vampire. Don't got a brick? Use a VHS tape (or better yet Betamax). Promise it will work.
Forget stakes in the heart or decapitation, just stuff a brick in his mouth to stop a pesky vampire. Don't got a brick? Use a VHS tape (or better yet Betamax). Promise it will work.
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posted by Vampire Librarian at 5:03 PM
5 Comments:
The Betamax has always been a higher quality way to thwart the vampire.
You didn't know this? I've never seen a brick used, but I know the mythology includes using a thorn to pin their tongue to the roof of their mouth so they can't feed or stuffing their mouth full of garlic. (That wasn't just a Bram Stoker thing.) An iron spike through the head is also suppose to help keep a good vampire down.
Librarianwoes, :-)
JamiSings, I thought usually they finished off with decapitation. I'm pretty sure the garlic-stuffed mouths were followed by chopping off the head, or at least, I read it somewhere like that, but haven't done an extensive study of the subject. Makes me a little queasy.
I went through an obsession phase in high school. Garlic was one way. Filling their mouths with dirt was another. Anything to plug the mouth.
Some old Roman Britain burials have bodies buried face down, so that they would have trouble "rising from the dead"
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