Check Out Top Brands On eBay. Great Prices On Millions Of Items. Get It On eBay. Answer: Silver has a unique place in vampire mythology as the single, solid, naturally occurring substance that can injure a vampire. The ultraviolet rays of sunlight can harm a vampire, as can fire or holy water, but these are all substances that have to be "created" in order to be used.
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Regardless of the debated status on the medical effectiveness of silver, the retention of silver in the body associated with chronic intake of colloidal silver would prove disagreeable to vampires. (If I could participate in Meta yet I would have checked to see how (un)acceptable it is to include a 'retcon' on this level, i.e. 21st century fiction employing/explaining folklore. Vampires, the undead, werewolves, and all the other haints and spooks being weak to silver is a creation of Hollywood when they added into older films as a prop device and only a handful of old Europe folklore had anything about silver being special. Silver is a metallic and chemical element that can be used as a weakness to vampires, werewolves and many other supernatural creatures. Reason for weakness Silver has been used as a symbol of purity for thousands of years, dating back to ancient times when people noticed water with silver in it took longer to go bad. But what about silver? Can vampires touch silver without being harmed? According to Myths and Hollywood, silver has a devastating effect on vampires if they are stabbed with it. According to most legends, it can kill them. However, they would be able to touch the silver. So, in conclusion, can vampires handle silver?
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Bram Stoker created one of the most enduring pieces of media vampire lore in Dracula (1897)—the idea that they do not reflect in mirrors. In fact it was meant to be more than that, his notes tell us that "painters cannot paint him—their likenesses always like some one else" and "Could not codak him—come out black or like skeleton corpse". Jan 29, 2012 at 7:19. 1. The idea was that you needed to be prepared to fight werewolves. Silver has special appeal and it made preparation for the fight expensive and werewolves gained immunity to default modern weapons that would have made them otherwise trivial to kill. A basic plot device. In most depictions, vampires are "undead"—that is to say, having been somehow revived after death—and many are said to rise nightly from their graves or coffins, often necessarily containing their native soil. Vampires. Vampires are ancient Balkan mythological being. The word actually depicts pretty much any form of non-ethereal undead (contrary to the popular belief of capes, fangs and etc).. Also, in the past mirrors were made out of silver, and actually Balkan werewolves are considered a type of a vampire, so. if you add 2+2 you.
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Similar weaknesses can be found with items made of silver and garlic. Vampires Hate Garlic. It is known that vampires prefer to hunt at night because of their sensitivity to the sun. Although vampires can inhabit traditional spaces, it is still common practice for them to sleep inside coffins - perhaps because of the added. [The Silver Has Mystic Powers] trope is the reason vampires traditionally have no reflections and don't show up on film. Old-timey mirrors used silver backing to achieve reflection, and black and white film used silver nitrates to capture the image (plus some old camera models included mirrors in the light capture mechanism); since vampires are unholy, their light is not picked up by divine.
Vampires are evil mythological beings who roam the world at night searching for people whose blood they feed upon. They may be the best-known classic monsters of all. Most people associate. A Super-Trope to Silver Bullet . See also Mithril, a silver-like Fantasy Metal (which is also called " (Moria) silver"). If this trope is true in a work that also has mithril, then the mithril might take it up a notch. Compare Power Crystal, Crystal Skull, Thunderbolt Iron (another metal with mythic history), and Cold Iron . Examples:
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The big banks and the Federal Reserve are modern day vampires and they are feeding off what remains of the living (productive) parts of the economy while the majority of Americans are stuck in a reality TV, Prozac induced coma of endless propaganda and brainwashing. Instead, it was well thought out and researched, at least from a mythological point of view. There are 4 main mythological reasons why silver is a potent weapon against werewolves: Silver has real chemical properties that are anti-microbial. Silver is a divine material with protective powers. Silver is a magical element that can destroy magic.
