How to Avoid Becoming a Vampire

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Though protecting yourself from vampires is one step in avoiding becoming one, it isn't enough. You can become a vampire even if you never encounter one. To avoid becoming a vampire, you need to consider methods beyond simple protection.

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Instructions

Step 1

Protect yourself from vampires. Keep garlic and crosses on hand, sprinkle iron shaving around your home and wear iron jewelry. Of course, never invite a potential vampire into your home. For complete protection, live on a river island because vampires cannot cross running water.
Step 2

Keep any vampire that bites you out past sunrise to make him disintegrate, saving you from becoming a vampire. When the vampire returns for another bite, scatter a large handful seeds on the ground in front of him. Vampires become distracted by counting the seeds and won't notice when the sun begins to rise.
Step 3

Be kind to your parents and avoid any kind of dispute with them. A parental curse can invite vampires, even if you are in the right.
Step 4

Get baptized to avoid becoming a vampire. In the Middle Ages, the monk Constantine declared that the unbaptized may become vampires after death--even if they have no contact with other vampires when alive.
Step 5

Die naturally. If you commit suicide, you leave yourself open to becoming a vampire—even if you are baptized and you arm yourself with garlic and iron jewelry before you die. In England, up until 1823 when it was outlawed, people would drive a stake into the heart of a person who committed suicide to ensure she wouldn't become a vampire.
Step 6

Warn your loved ones to keep cats and other animals away from you after you die. Eastern European folklore holds that a cat jumping over your dead body turns you into a vampire. Other animals don't have such sure results but are also dangerous. After you're buried, you'll be safe from the animals.

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superman13 said

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on 3/20/2009 holly items? garlic? pall, the only thing garlic will do to me is make me sneeze. dont insult me. and yea, if you were to stake me, i woulod die, but not because its a stake. if you were to stab me with a sword, it would be the same. dont be as nieve as the rest of the world. why dont you do some research on real vampires, and stop spreading this propaganda. and we arent the monsters society makes out to be. all we want is to live our lives, just the same as you. we have even interetwined ourselves into your society. stop making pregudice assumptions. please.

AbbyNormal said

on 6/16/2008 My mother is from Romania. Does that make me a vampire? And I LOVE Countchocula!!!!! But I can't stand the sight of blood........ I am a failure at being a vampire ..........

Jonathanw said

on 5/14/2008 I have a friend who visited Romania.. and eats countchocula.... vampire or not a vampire?

nlhouser said

on 5/5/2008 Excellent research. I am glad you do not follow the status quo of everyone else. Good writing and good use of an individual mind, not a group consciousness.