As mentioned above, water is generally held in various folklore as proof against the likes of witches, ghosts and vampires, the idea being that water is purifying and thus can impede or dissolve unholy forces.
People believed that spirits could not cross running water, which therefore, would temporarily separate the vampire from the bonded souls of their victims, which they must release first. This leaves the vampire vulnerable to many variations of death (such as drowning).
Some folklore also states that vampires are unable to walk on consecrated ground, such as that of churches or temples, or cross running water.
In 1st and 2nd Edition, vampires can cross running water, but if they are immersed in it for 3 minutes they are destroyed. In the third edition they can no longer pass over running water on their own, but can be carried over it in a container.
Not only do the oceans provide evaporated water to the water cycle, they also allow water to move all around the globe as ocean currents. Oceans are the storehouses of water nature uses to run the water cycle.
He is also limited in his ability to travel, as he can only cross running water at low or high tide.
From precipitation to the land to the rivers to the sea
The rain physically erodes the rock and the acids chemically break down the rocks and carries salts and minerals along in a dissolved state as ions. The ions in the runoff are carried to the streams and rivers and then to the ocean.
And if vampires avoid mirrors, it is because they do not exist (vampires, not mirrors), it is because the specular reflection, servile reproduction of reality, throws them in the face the tangible proof of their non-existence.
Can a female vampire get pregnant? Can female vampires become pregnant ? No, they cannot as their egg cells are frozen and can't be fertilized by a sperm cell.
Can vampires have showers? A: Vampires do shower, but they don't get dirty the same way we do. Outside dirt, yes–blood and mud and whatnot (though most vampires don't get a spot on themselves when they eat–its all a matter of practice), but not sweat or body oils.
Vampires have blood, which is what's used to fill those erections generally required for sex, in their system only after they've hunted and sucked their victims dry.
Vampires are often depicted as being repelled by garlic, running water, or Christian implements such as crucifixes and holy water.
No. Vampires' bodies are a LOT “drier” than the bodies of living humans. Thus, their systems conserve every DROP of moisture they ingest.
In the world of Twilight, vampire women are unable to get pregnant because their body can not change to hold a fetus. But men are apparently able to get human women pregnant.
In Balkans folklore, dhampirs (sometimes spelled dhampyres, dhamphirs, or dhampyrs) are creatures that are the result of a union between a vampire and a mortal human. This union was usually between male vampires and female mortal humans, with stories of female vampires mating with male mortal humans being rare.
It's mentioned fairly early in the book that vampires have an aversion to right angles because right angle indicate something man-made. I don't think right angles kill them or anything, but they have an innate fear of them. A cross contains four right angles.
Bella gets pregnant after one night of passionate sex with her husband Edward the vampire, sex that leads to the destruction of their idyllic honeymoon suite.
Newborn or newborn vampire is the term for a vampire that has been transformed for less than one year.
No. When a human is turned into a vampire, all their blood is used to fuel that transformation. They constantly referred to their bodies as frozen, unchanging. Your body needs to change in order to have a menstrual cycle, no menstrual cycle means no period or pregnancy.
Garlic, specifically the chemical compound allicin inside garlic, is a powerful antibiotic. Some European beliefs around vampires stated they were created by a disease of the blood, so a powerful antibiotic would “kill” a vampire.
Vampires were said to have arithmomania and needed to count things and actions. People took advantage of this by scattering seeds, salt, grains of rice, or whatever else they had in tiny sizes & large numbers, on the floor of their houses. ...
In the world of Twilight, when vampires have black eyes it means they need to feed. A vampire's eyes will go from their natural color, which depends on their diet, to black, darkening more and more the thirstier they get.
No. Boiling seawater does not make it safe to drink because it doesn't remove the salt. Freshwater on the other hand - say from a river - can be boiled to make it safe enough to drink.
The least saline ocean, by comparison, is the Arctic Ocean, which has a typical salinity of 28–30 g/kg owing to the low rate of evaporation and meltwater from the ice-caps.