what ways is there to kill a vampire?

Question

can cuting of the head kill hem or just sun light

Answer 1

Vampires are small bats, about the size of a man's thumb.
http://www.thewildones.org/Animals/vampire.html

As such, they should be a lot easier to kill than with all the rigmarole suggested above.

Doesn't this question belong in the Zoology section?

Answer 2

I mainly school myself in the works of Anne Rice when I write about vampires and research them.
* Garlic only annoys them, but they can tolerate it.
* Holy water will burn them, but it will not kill them.
* Stakes through the heart will work, if you hit hard enough and in the right spot... through the center of the chest is 'not' the heart, remember that.
* Drinking the blood of the already deceased will poison and eventually kill a vampire if they are unable to obtain living blood.
* Sunlight will kill a vampire
* Fire will kill a vampire, as with any other creature, provided they don't escape the flames.
* cutting off the head should work. Vampires can't regenerate their head like the hydra, but they can regenerate other body parts that have been detached. They may be immortal, but they are not invincible, so i'd say decaptitation would work.
* Crosses are a joke. Vampires can even enter churches, so don't run into one thinking that will protect you.
* Vampires only need permission to enter your home through a door, so keep your windows locked. ;)
* Vampires can not cross water unless they're in their coffins.
* If a vampire can't obtain a coffin for the day, they will dig themselves into the dirt to wait until night or will dig up an occupied coffin from a cemetary, discard the remains, and use it for the day.
* Silver bullets are for werewolves, not vampires, just a reminder.
Hopefully that should be enough to help you in whatever you needed to information for. I really believe that how you dispose of a vampire is all personal opinion and creativity. New methods are being created every day in fantasy books.

Answer 3

Sunlight was said to kill them if they had not made it to their coffin with earth from their homeland.

Some felt that the mouth needed to be stuffed with garlic and sowed shut.


How to Kill a Vampire



The problem with vampires is these pesky bloodsuckers tend to hang around forever, if only in our imaginations.

Steps:
1. Look for a hole above a grave. Sometimes vampires have to dig their way out.

2. Scatter salt on the floor in the vampire's latest victim's room. Help the vampire lead you right to his or her tomb.

3. Use garlic, hawthorn branches, or a cross to trap your vampire in a corner. Protect yourself from revenge by making a cross of tar on your front door.

4. Dig the vampire up on a Friday. According to the early Greeks, that's when a vampire is weakest. Take advantage of the day when vampires can't come out to play.

5. Pound iron stakes through his coffin and straight into the ground if you catch him at rest.

6. Bury his body under running water - vampires can't stand it.

7. Fire a silver bullet blessed by a priest into his heart.

8. Drive an aspen, ash or white thorn stake through his heart with a single blow if you want to make a lasting impression.

9. Pour boiling water, boiling oil or holy water into his grave.

10. Cremate his body or make a paste from his flesh for closure. Then sit down and feast on the beast.

Tips:
Remember that a vampire in a coffin always appears to be dead already. Examine the body closely and you'll see that the vampire is only breathing slightly, or perhaps not breathing at all.

Brace yourself for plenty of loud screaming and wailing. Wear old clothes or a raincoat, because there's always lots of blood.

Turn your vampire over in his or her grave if you forget your wooden stake. Make sure the vampire digs the wrong way if he or she tries to escape while you're running home to fetch the stake.


Warnings:
The undead tend to have extremely bad breath.

Vampires sleep with their eyes open, so you'd better be quick.

Russians used to think that a vampire's teeth were made of steel, making it possible to chomp through the coffin. Keep your hands and feet away from the vampire's mouth.

Don't forget: Dracula and his ilk don't cast shadows, nor do they have reflections. Plus, they can change into bats or foggy mist instantaneously.

Understand that you must succeed on your first attempt at terminating your vampire. Failure to do so could mean immortality for your victim.

Overall Warnings:
eHow Inc. does not condone or encourage violence, even against the undead. Kill a vampire at your own peril.


Tips from eHow Users:
Just a follow up on silver bullets... by Marcus Fox
Apparently, in some cultures, the silver bullet itself was supposed to terminate ANY evil or unholy creature. The silver bullet can kill any WERE animal, not necessarily just a wolf. Things of all natures from wererats and werehorses have been reported, though it's inconclusive whether or not the werebeasts were terminated using silver or not.

Answer 4

Historically, quoting pre movie myth here:

Cut his head of and bury at a crossroads with a stake through his heart. The stake is believed to nail him to the floor.

Also suspected vampires were buried face down so they would dig to the center of the earth should they ever wake.

Answer 5

many way, the best is from film under world part 2 . Smashing him to a spinning rotor of a helicopter

Answer 6

Tie them up at the beach on a sunny day and stuff garlic down their throat. After they die, light them on fire with Russian Vodka.

Answer 7

Get them to read some of the questions and answers on Yahoo. They'd die of laughter or boredom.

Answer 8

Wooden stake through heart, friend.

Answer 9

garlic, or stab them in the heart with a cross or something...I dont know.

Answer 10

holy water will set them on fire