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The following was taken from a book called 'The Vampire Encyclopedia'.

why not just use the most common and ultimate for sure that if they are vamp or not, stab them in the heart with a stake....

Stab them and to make sure Off with their head.. Ouch is all i say..

I know that in some older countries they believe that if you spread something around the house and across the floor and windows then they could not enter into a home that they had once been welcomed into...

Like salts, sages etc ......
Just as you would do to keep evil or dead spirits out ... I am not sure if it works or true, just something I have heard is all...


Yet to chop off the head works for me LOL...

I wonder why it doesn't list simply not inviting them into a person's house? A lot of the old legends, they couldn't come into a person's house unless they were invited. This was usually why vampires would prey on friends and family since it was easier to get invited in.

I am surprised it doesn't list fire. One of the more common methods was to burn the vampire's body.

hmmmm I heard of a case of blue waters near your doors makes them stay away from your door. Some of the ones listed I have heard of but other cool something new to read up on.. hehee

A ring of salt around a potential victim or a safehouse. That's something I've known about since I was a little girl. I forget why it prevents them though...

The list from the first post can also be found from the following url.

http://silverhand.20m.com/protect.htm

but these protections are just lore. for we have not run across a true vampire to try these out. Stake them, well if we look at vampires as animated dead than driving a stake in the body would pin them yes but would it kill them huh a question to ponder. and the other remedies are what sorry to say the good side made to ward off the evil and make sure that they could be killed. Much like a super hero always has one weakness, Now lets apply that to killing vampires, demons, etc. there must always be a way to kill them or protect ones self. But what if you came across a vampire and started through the list, how would you feel if they did not work.

If you want to talk about fictional most will work and I heard about most, they work.

If you talk about real then I would say, it is the same as any normal human being, garlic is good on pizza, but getting beheaded might just cut cold the line of action.

I consider nothing really protects, when one is determin to get to its " target" nothing can stop him or her.

Different areas have different means of dealing with the vampires, undead, and other ghoulish creatures. One of the lore of holding a vampire is they cannot cross running water; and some creatures cannot handle iron or silver...the list is huge and a good one for any authors to use :)

I like the stake them through the heart to stake them to the earth to hold them down and cut off the head and then put garlic in the mouth - overkill in my book, but hey, if it works, use it :P

I always hear about the protection with salt in window ledges and door ways as well.. Makes you think really.

What I would use for protection is a visual from psychic vampire attack. I first envision a white shield to hide me, then a black shield so the vampire's energy can't get anywhere close to touching me.

You have to be well-practiced in visualizations, but it's fairly easy to learn as long as you have an active imagination. :)

if we really think about it how can you stop a vamp with a cross its better just to cut off there head . i want to know why
there are legends of headless zombies. if were to destroy the brain then how can they still walk

I'd have to say that the main one i've heard to definately work is the whole 'cut off the head" idea.....although that'll work for anything.....

cutting of the head would be the solution, but how many of us carry swords every where we walk, I think we would be shot on the spot. But many lores tell us the protection that they had used on individuals they thought were vampires, back in the early years. and yet we are unsure of these methods for it is considered fable by all.

The only one that i have heard, other than some of the ones listed, was since vampires are supposed to not be able to be in sunlight was to use heat lamps in a residence.
Not sure what good it was to do and can't remember where i heard that from but was told it put out almost half the power that sunlight might.

wolfsbane was used too because some believed vampires could shapeshift into wolves among other things and iron shavings or just pieces of iron because silver wasn't really suppose to kill them but the werewolf. You find the iron thing warding off types of vampires in a number of myths. I like the seed one its funny. Supposedly if you drop the seeds they will start counting them until they have counted everyone and you can make a quick exit.

You mentioned witchcraft by the trained as a method to repel vampires. I have always heard that vampires are immediately repelled by a true witch for some reason to do with their blood? I am not speaking about 'new age' witches - but those whose bloodlines include actual Druids or witches of old.

This could just be a myth - but I have heard that one before.

These would only work if you are implying that vampires are of the walking dead and are immortal.

If you look at modern day vampires, I don't believe it would keep them away. A stake through the heart can kill anyone, not just vampire and if the stake does in fact kill them what point is there is severing the head.

These beliefs are constantly replicated in vampire fairy tales, and they are very cliche'.

As far as chopping of the head or the old stake through the heart, that would kill a normal person too. Duh. But I have also read somewhere that white thorn and buckthorn growing around the house helps because it was supposed to be what Jesus' crown was made of. They are supposed to get tangled in it, keeping it in place until the sun rises to kill them off.