VAMPIRE PREVENTION

What can you do to make sure your friends or family don’t rise up from the dead to become a vampire? How can you make sure the dead corpse stays there? Here are some superstitions and possibly facts on vampire prevention.

  1. Stuff the corpse mouth or coffin with garlic.

    2. Garlic has always been believed to have powers to ward off vampires. In addition, garlic stuffed in the mouth had an added bonus of preventing a vampire from chewing on itself.

  2. Put coins on the corpse eyelids.

A lot of cultures believed that payment was needed before the soul could travel to the world of the dead. The coins represent payment so the soul can leave the body and are not trapped to become a vampire.

    3.   Bury the corpse at a crossroad.

For hundreds of years, crossroads were feared and believed were a sign of evil. They were always avoided, more at night because the ground was "unholy". A vampire buried at a crossroads would be trapped within the unhallowed ground.

    4.   Bury the corpse upside-down.

This will help the vampire from rising and digging its way out. Instead it will be digging its way even deeper and deeper underground.

  1. Put a stake in the ground above the corpse.

    2. If a corpse becomes a vampire it would impale itself as if it was trying to escape the earth.

  2. Watch the corpse until it is buried.

    3. If you watch it, it will prevent animals from jumping over it or moonlight falling onto it. These are two sure-fire ways that a corpse can turn into a vampire.

  3. Put a headstone over the grave.

    4. Headstones actually, were not made to remember people by, but were originally a weight to keep vampires into the ground.

  4. Bind hands and feet.

    5. Binding the corpse was something not to be taken lightly. Tying up the corpse might impede its efforts to get into the land of the dead (releasing its soul) but at the same time was an effective way to keep a vampire from rising up.

  5. Fill the coffin with tiny seeds.

    6. An old folk tale says that a vampire must count each and every seed before even thinking about leaving the graveyard.

  6. Bury food with the corpse.

    7. A well-fed vampire would not need to cannibalize itself or leave the grave to make others vampires.

  7. Stake the corpse.

    8. Normally you would do this when it’s a vampire, but why wait?

  8. Bury parts of the corpse in different areas.

An example of this is if its head is buried apart from its body, it will have to find its head before leaving and going out to feed on others.

    13. Tie the corpse with hundreds of tiny knots.

This is the same idea as the seeds. The corpse must untie all the knots before leaving the graveyard. Even the knots that are not holding him down.

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