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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drawmack" data-source="post: 676709" data-attributes="member: 4981">Actually when you are talking about vampiric myth the weaknesses depend greatly on the culture whose myth you are reading.For example: The celts believed that you could kill a vampire by placing a carn (sp.) on their grave. This did not actually kill them but rather immobilized them. In celtic lore a vampire must stop to count anytime a large amount of small things is placed in it's path. Therefor if you built a carn on their grave they would spend all night counting the rocks.Another culture (I forget which one though) believed that vampires could only come out during the day.Many cultures believed that vampires not only had to sleep in a coffin, to block out light, but had to sleep in some of their burrial soil which would be placed into the coffin. This is where the left sock of burial dirt comes from. The left sock contained the dirt they needed to sleep in so by destroying that sock you forced the vampire into the daylight thereby destroying them.HMMM - I think I've finally found the topic for an article to write for gaming frontiers, thanks for the inspiration.</blockquote>