Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers a scientific explanation for the origins of the legends.

This man had, during his lifetime, often revealed that, near Gossowa in Turkish Serbia, he had been troubled by a vampire, wherefore he had eaten from the earth of the vampire's grave and had smeared himself with the vampire's blood, ...

While the vampire sleeps, steal the creature's left sock, ignoring the stench if possible. (There's nothing worse than the smell of eighthundredyearold undead feet.) Fill the sock with earth or stones from the vampire's grave and toss the sock as ...

GRAVE. In the early eighteenth century, Arnod Paole had a great fall ... from a hay wagon, that is, and broke his neck, sending ... Tracking the vampire to its grave, he killed it, ate dirt from the vampire's grave, and smeared its blood on himself.

In the they might become unhallowed monsters of the absence of the corpse from the grave , the coffin - lid vampire kind , as is seen from the Grettis ... The corpse is re To guard against the attacks of vampires , vitalized and thirsts for blood .

finding vampires 123 Dark Challenge (2000): Julian Savage has failed to find his lifemate and is about to self-destruct in the sun when he is tasked to ... A vampire's grave may give itself away by the presence of an eerie, bluish flame at night.

Vampire 420 Vampire " In consequence of this the body of the spectre was dug up, and found to be in the same state as if it ... The method of discovering a vampire's grave in Serbia is to place a virgin boy upon a coal-black stallion which has ...

The existence of a vampire could be detected by a variety of means. In Montene- gro, for example, a black horse (in Albania, a white horse was used) would be led to a local cemetery—the horse would be repelled by a vampire's grave.

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Find the vampire's grave. You'll need to walk through the ... Or he may just let you know that he's tired of gallivanting about through the graveyard. 2. Place iron needles in the sleeping vampire's heart and mouth. The trick is to make sure he ...