• Vampire myths go back thousands of years and occur in almost every culture around the world. Their variety is almost endless from red eyed monsters with green or pink hair in China to the Greek Lamia which has the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a winged serpent; from vampire foxes in Japan to a head with trailing entrails known as the Penanggalang in Malaysia.

There is a couple of ways to kill a vampire:

• Look for a hole above a grave. Sometimes vampires have to dig their way out.
• Scatter salt on the floor in the vampire’s latest victim’s room. Help the vampire lead you right to his or her tomb.
• 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.
• Dig the vampire up on a Friday. According to the early Greeks, that’s when a vampire is weakest.
• Pound iron stakes through his coffin and straight into the ground if you catch him at rest.
• Bury his body under running water.
• Fire a silver bullet blessed by a priest into his heart.
• Drive an aspen ash or white thorn stake through his heart with a single blow.
• Pour boiling water, boiling oil or holy water into his grave.

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