What kills a vampire?

[Rachelle_of_Shangri_La8089]

Step 1:Look for a hole above a grave. Sometimes vampires have to dig their way out. Step 2:Scatter salt on the floor in the vampire's latest victim's room. Help the vampire lead you right to his or her tomb. Step 3:Use garlic, hawthorn branches, or a cross to trap your vampire in a corner. Protect yourself from revenge by making a cross of tar on your front door. Step 4ig the vampire up on a Friday. According to the early Greeks, that's when a vampire is weakest. Take advantage of the day when vampires can't come out to play. Step 5:Pound iron stakes through his coffin and straight into the ground if you catch him at rest.

[H4621]

According to Western Mythology Zack, a vampire can be killed by a wooden stake driven through the heart. A silver bullet will also kill the vampire of myth. It can be decapitated or burned to a cinder. The light of day will also do a vampire in, according to the classical myth (more current versions say that daylight only weakens the vampire). I hold with the original version which says daylight will destroy vampires. Clean running water also kills vampires. Garlic and crucifixes only repel the vampire.The most likely origin of the stake as deadly to the vampire is from the origin of the myth involving the real, live personage Vlad Tepes. His favorite method of execution was impaling his enemies on wooden stakes. Silver is deadly to the vampire because our Lord was betrayed for thirty pieces of silver. Silver therefore is a blessed metal. Decapitation will end any creature as your are separating the command center from the functioning body leaving both portions to wither and die. Fire cleanses all things and vampires are considered unclean. Daylight is deadly to the vampire because it is a creature of darkness; the Lord never did any of His Works in darkness, so daylight kills the vampire. Clean, running water symbolizes re-birth; John the Baptizer baptized He Who is without sin in the River Jordan imbuing the waters with the ability to remove sin. So clean, running water also destroys vampires.That is the 'Reader's Digest' version of the Western Mythology concerning blood-suckers. I hope it answers your question.H

[Aqua4877]

A wooden stake in the heart