in all movies if anyone's being hunted by a vamp. they put garlic all over the place and the vampires hate it!why/?
2006-07-09 08:19:43 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
I think maybe because of the smell.
2006-07-09 08:24:08 · answer #1 · answered by knowbuddycares 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
vampirism can be seen as symbolic of mosquito bites - and garlic is known in folklore as a natural mosquito repellent.
Mosquitoes suck blood and in doing so spread disease. So do vampires. Some of the symptoms of malaria - exhaustion, fever, anemia - are reminiscent of the reputed effects of being bitten by a vampire without being totally drained or turned. Garlic is a known insect repellent which reportedly works well against mosquitoes. This would fit well with the vampire folklore and gothic fiction.
2006-07-09 08:28:21 · answer #2 · answered by Gray Matter 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the following is an enticing article: Dr. David H. Dolphin, a biochemist on the college of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, stated that the end results of the porphyria diseases, which contain a malfunctioning interior the body's manufacture of needed chemical compounds, would have left victims grotesquely disfigured, became them into creatures of the evening and led to them to suck the blood of their brothers and sisters. those vampires, or porphyria victims, would nicely were afraid of garlic, in accord with mythology. Garlic, he stated, includes a chemical that exacerbates the indicators of porphyrias.
2016-10-14 06:57:50 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it stinks up their cape?
2006-07-09 08:25:05 · answer #4 · answered by Bubsy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think they preffer onion
2006-07-09 08:23:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋