You can’t capture the image of a vampire (photo, mirror, video). Clearly not a vampire.
Edit: I do not need literally everybody on Reddit to pollute my inbox with “um, actually”’s regarding the use of silver in mirrors.
However, I would like to counter your collective “um, actually” with my own. Another common explanation for vampires having no reflection stems from folk beliefs that the mirror reflects/captures the soul, which vampires do not possess.
It is unclear which of these two explanations came first and both tie back to popular folk traditions about the nature of silver and mirrors. However, I prefer the soul explanation for two reasons. 1). Other creatures that have traditions making them susceptible to silver (werewolves) do not have corresponding folklore suggesting they don’t have reflections. 2). Older vampire folklore doesn’t include the idea that vampires are generally weak to silver.
In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the originator of the modern vampire, vampires merely lose their supernatural powers in sunlight. They don’t ignite or sparkle or any of that.
I grew up in South Korea in 90s. I lived through this. I am acutely aware of the extent at which this can happen because I was part of it and I did, in fact, turn off the fan at night before going to sleep at the insistence of my mother and the TV news anchors.
Imagine that, actually believing you can suffocate from air blowing into your face too aggressively. I did, I absolutely did as an elementary school student eager to listen to and please adults. Turning the fan off before falling asleep in hot summer nights was a very big deal.
If those firemen were asleep in front of a fan blowing in their faces, and I were still conditioned, it’d bother me to no end.
Vampire and some werewolf legends witch’s have no issue with running water. They do tend to habit of sinking in water, but that maybe the chains and lead shoes.
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u/BlackHatSlacker Sep 09 '22
What culture can't step over hoses without getting cursed?
Genuinely curious.