I’m not sure if dead man’s blood is actually an anti-vampire weapon. The first and only place I’ve heard of it used was in the series Supernatural. It supposedly puts vamps to sleep for about an hour. Not sure if that piece of mythology originated in the show, but I’m sure most of my fans know if it would work against… you know, a REAL vampire.
This is the first strip that I’ve managed to post on time for quite a while. My girlfriend left for Cali a few days ago, so I’ve got some down time from my boyfriend duties to draw. Trust me, I’d rather be with her then entertaining you all. In a week and a half I’ll be flying out to join her then we spend the rest of the summer traveling from Cali to Canada. Wish us luck.
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Whoops. Forgot the persistent “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEER” from the sonic bomb. I’ll fix that when I get home.
I’m not aware of any usage of dead man’s blood
And you are my resident expert, so I guess it’s something the TV creators came up with. And now it’s Kick Canon apparently that dead man’s blood temporarily incapacitates vampires… at least those of French decent. Maybe I should research these things FIRST…
The beauty of this is that you get to make your own canon.
Traditional ways to incapacitate a vampire involve counting things- vampires would be kept in the grave by a pile of grain, they wouldn’t get moving until they had counted every grain, every piece of sand etc.
Actually, the stake was originally to hold the vampire in place so you could remove the head. Staking the heart is a later idea.
If Sidekick really wants to mess with vampires, he should:
1. Use silver bullets (yup, vampire thing first)
2. wear roses and garlic
3. scatter sand on the ground
4. smear the blood of their SURVIVING victims around- vampires obssessively return to their previous victims
5. use strobe lights flashing randomly
6. surround the building with a circle of sea-salt. That would stop them leaving;
7. consecrate the water in the fire extinguisher.
You are forgetting the classical time of using dead mans blood way before supernatural in Interview with the vampire. It was used against Lestat by Louis and Claudia (using a pair of dead twin boys made to look like they were sleeping) when they were trying to bump him off, had the affect of screwing him up, made sluggish etc.
Oh, so that has been used before. Never read the novel and barely remember the movie. Frankly I think all these disparate vampire myths are just a way of distracting us from the real threat of Rakshasa.