In American lore, they also have arithmomania, where they compulsively have to count things. So you’d throw some straw behind you to escape the vampire because it would have to stop and count the straw that you threw. That’s why The Count in Sesame Street is a Vampire who likes counting things.
Is that actually a standard vampire rule? I honestly thought that was something Adventure Time made up.
In American lore, they also have arithmomania, where they compulsively have to count things. So you’d throw some straw behind you to escape the vampire because it would have to stop and count the straw that you threw. That’s why The Count in Sesame Street is a Vampire who likes counting things.
Yes. If you read Dracula, Dr Van Hellsing explains all this and many other interesting things…
It is a very old thing, actually!
Yes, without permission it’s vampiric assault, a serious crime. Victims are coming forward more and more since the #Vtoo movement
If you were bitten against your will, you can’t become a vampire unless you want to.
the body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down?
Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can’t explain that!
I don’t know if you can call anything to do with fictional beings “standard”. All of it is subject to interpretation and the whims of the storyteller.
That said, while it tends to be absent from modern lore, it’s a very old rule as the other commenter said.
Depends on what you consider modern. It’s still there in The Lost Boys.
Such a great bad movie. The dude playing the sax steals the show
I STILL BELIEVE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdaaGlyu7EQ
All part of the narrative that a vampire will seduce you, because without you inviting it in then it can’t.
Adventure Time just riffs on it