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silverthorneDoing researchy type stuff for folkloric vampires.
It's interesting to note that Hawthorn, which is considered the correct wood for making pegs to hold a vampire into its grave is also good, medically speaking, for heart and blood/vein conditions. (That's the shorthand version of the notes I took).
The idea of using silver popped up around the time guns did, and people started shooting coffins to kill vampires (and it's actually usually a silver coin cut into quarters--not bullets made from a silver cross). Iron is actually used in older folklore for things like staking.
Wild rose thorns strewn over the grave are apparently good for snagging vampire clothing, thus keeping them contained in their coffins.
Any grain, including millet and poppy seeds, cna be strewn on the grave to keep the vampire busy counting instead of hunting.
Garlic features in a good portion of the eastern Europe legends.
...the Cucaburra (sp?) is actually the closest thing to a vampire the south americans have (not counting the gods).
It's interesting to note that Hawthorn, which is considered the correct wood for making pegs to hold a vampire into its grave is also good, medically speaking, for heart and blood/vein conditions. (That's the shorthand version of the notes I took).
The idea of using silver popped up around the time guns did, and people started shooting coffins to kill vampires (and it's actually usually a silver coin cut into quarters--not bullets made from a silver cross). Iron is actually used in older folklore for things like staking.
Wild rose thorns strewn over the grave are apparently good for snagging vampire clothing, thus keeping them contained in their coffins.
Any grain, including millet and poppy seeds, cna be strewn on the grave to keep the vampire busy counting instead of hunting.
Garlic features in a good portion of the eastern Europe legends.
...the Cucaburra (sp?) is actually the closest thing to a vampire the south americans have (not counting the gods).
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Date: 2007-03-30 05:18 pm (UTC)Hmn...I might or might not use that; I'm also trying to find things that I can at least tie into 'fuzzy' science (like hawthorn wood and it's properties both magically as well as medically sort of corresponding).
Silver I might be able to make a case for if I look into it far enough, although garlic might be harder (except perhaps based not so much on medical/magical properies as in the SMELL, OH GOD MY NOSE!). And yeah, except in some real rare cases (or pure ritual, which has its own ingrained strengths from lifetimes of use), avoid most of the religiously toned solutions.
...yeah, you can tell this'll be a mess already, can't you? *g*