• 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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Caleb’s second Goss!

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Dracula

History:

The history of the meat pie is a bit uncertain; many countries claim to have created the first meat pie. The first meat pies were thought to be made in Ancient Greece. They were called “Artocreas”, and were simply a pastry crust, onto which cooked meat was spooned.  The Australian meat pie manufacturer Four’N'Twenty makes the dubious claim that the pie was invented in 1947 by L. T. McClure in a small Bendigo bakery. However the history of the meat pie is much older than this. The pie manufacturer ‘Sargent’ can trace their pie making back to 1906 and in fact at the opening of the Old Parliament House in 1927, Sargent meat pies were served.

Facts:1.     Australians eat 260 million pies a year, that’s around 13 a year each, and on top of that we munch our way through an additional 20 other pastries.

2.     Did you know that there are lots of ingredients in meat pies you might not know about such as, Snouts, ears, tongues and blood vessels from lots of different animals?

3.     There is not one Australian town that doesn’t sell a meat pie or a different form of pastry.

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