Why can't vampires drink running water?

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.

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Why couldn t vampires cross running water?

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).

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Can vampires run on water?

Some folklore also states that vampires are unable to walk on consecrated ground, such as that of churches or temples, or cross running water.

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Can vampires walk over 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.

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Do oceans count as running water?

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.

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Can Dracula cross water?

He is also limited in his ability to travel, as he can only cross running water at low or high tide.

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Why is the ocean salty?

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.

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Why can't vampires look in mirrors?

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.

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Can a female vampire get pregnant?

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.

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Can a vampire take a shower?

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.

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Can a vampire get hard?

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.

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What are vampires most afraid of?

Vampires are often depicted as being repelled by garlic, running water, or Christian implements such as crucifixes and holy water.

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Can a vampire pee?

No. Vampires' bodies are a LOT “drier” than the bodies of living humans. Thus, their systems conserve every DROP of moisture they ingest.

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Can a vampire get a human pregnant in Twilight?

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.

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Can a vampire mate with a human?

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.

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Are vampires afraid of right angles?

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.

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How did Bella get pregnant so fast?

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.

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How long does a vampire stay a newborn?

Newborn or newborn vampire is the term for a vampire that has been transformed for less than one year.

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Do vampires have periods?

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.

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What happens if a vampire eats garlic?

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.

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Why do vampires count rice?

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. ...

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Why do vampires eyes turn black?

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.

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Can you drink sea water if boiled?

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.

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What ocean has no salt?

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.

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