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placing garlic in chimneys and keyholes will not allow vampires to enter the house. [3] When passing a cemetery on horseback, if the horses refuses to enter, this means a vampire is buried in one of the graves, or is lurking nearby. [3] Putting thorns or poppy seeds on the path when walking to church will ensure no vampires follow. [3]
Items and symbols such as crosses, crucifixes, silver bullets, wild roses and garlic were believed to ward off or destroy vampires. Peisistratus hung the figure of a kind of grasshopper before the Acropolis of Athens as apotropaic magic. [10] In Roman art, envy was thought to bring bad luck to the person envied.
Based on Vlad the Impaler, the real-life Romanian prince with a thirst for bloody warfare, Stoker's Count Dracula is a far cry from Byron's sexy, womanizing vampire.
The Vampire, by Philip Burne-Jones, 1897. A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living.In European folklore, vampires are undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods which they inhabited while they were alive.
Jure Grando (Croatia) first real person described as a vampire in historical records Ghoul (Arabic lore) – "The Arabic stories of the ghole spread east and were adopted by the people of the Orient, where it evolved as a type of vampiric spirit called a ghoul."
Both Logan and Daley had their vampire awakenings when they were teenagers -- and like what is portrayed in bookes and movies, the Souths don't like sunlight (Logan more than Daley), have pet ...
Long before "Twilight" put Jacob on the map, werewolves have been the subject of countless movies, books and monster tales.. In fact, much like ghosts, witches and vampires, the werewolf has been ...
Like vampires, Visayan folklore creatures, and aswangs, manananggals are also said to abhor garlic, salt and holy water. [5] They were also known to avoid daggers, light, vinegar, spices and the tail of a stingray, which can be fashioned as a whip. [3] Folklore of similar creatures can be found in the neighbouring nations of Indonesia and Malaysia.