Can vampires die without use of garlic, crucifixes, or wooden stakes?

purrrr

http://www.zerotime.com/night/destroy.htm Apparently, silver bullets and fire also work, as well as beheading. This site claims that sunlight is a myth, and that in medieval times, vampires walked amongst everyone else in the daytime. Jun 11 06, 4:03 PM

zbeckabee

Apparently, you need to first determine the ethnic origin of the Vampire in question. Next...locate Vampire and administer according to the following: Sampiro - Albania - Stake through heart Nachtzehrer - Bavaria - Place coin in mouth, decapitate with ax Ogoljen - Bohemia - Bury at crossroads Krvoijac - Bulgaria - Chain to grave with wild roses Kathakano - Crete - Boil head in vinegar Brukalaco - Greece - Cut off and burn head Vampir - Hungary - Stake through heart, nail through temples Dearg-dul - Ireland - Pile stones on grave Vryolakas - Macedonia - Pour boiling oil on, drive nail through navel Upier - Poland - Bury face downwards Gierach - Prussia - Put poppy seeds in grave Strigoiul - Rumania - Remove heart, cut in two; garlic in mouth, nail in head Vlkoslak - Serbia - Cut off toes, drive nail through neck Neuntoter - Saxony - Lemon in mouth Vampiro - Spain - No known remedy http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_039.html Jun 11 06, 4:45 PM

lanfranco

The Spanish just have to put up with them? That explains a lot. Such as Antonio Banderas. In Gary Sosnowski's mildly amusing recent novel "Vamped," garlic, crucifixes, and all other traditional vampire-fighters' impedimenta are useless, but vampires weary of eternal life (and an eternal diet of blood) can commit suicide by crashing their cars and going up in flames: http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue381/books2.html Jun 11 06, 5:13 PM

peasypod

I never seem to have any trouble using my cheese-cutter. Jun 11 06, 5:15 PM

fernster

Sure make them sit and watch two hours of The Jay Leno Show! Jun 11 06, 6:12 PM