Is that a comfortable position to look at? I tried it and I like that position. That's the way it wil be for me when I go decades from now.
2006-10-17 17:33:13 · 20 answers · asked by ZORRO 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
It symbolizes the vampire protecting his chest and heart from hunters who want to drive a wooden stake through it.
This way, if the hunters try to move his arms out of the way, he can at least wake up, and fight back, and kill them.
2006-10-17 17:56:53 · answer #1 · answered by Nicole 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The general consensus here is "protecting the heart", but here's another reason why. Since vampires are thought to be able to transform into bats, which sleep upside down with their wings enveloping or folded across their bodies, vampires also sleep this way. (In fact, the bones in a bat’s wing are similar to those in human arms and hands.)
I also sleep in that position sometimes, especially when I can't get to sleep, and it IS comfortable. We must be batty, hey!
Addenda: The wife came up with something too. Since some cultures believe that the heart contain the soul, or "life energy", that allows them immortality. Vampires cross their arms thus to protect the soul as well as the heart. She also says that if a vampire's arms are moved, while in the coffin, for the stake to be driven through, it will awaken the vampire. Hence the method of decapitation for killing a vampire, which is the only "true" way of doing so. It's believed that even if a stake is driven through the heart, the vampire is unable to move until the stake is taken out and the "life energy" can return to the heart.
2006-10-17 22:15:04 · answer #2 · answered by Companion Wulf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can only kill a vampire by driving a wooden stake through his heart. His arms crossed over his chest was a way of protecting his heart from being pierced by the wooden stake during sleep.
2006-10-17 17:37:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-21 22:39:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a space issue. A vampire would get wedged into the coffin if his arms rested at his side.
2006-10-19 03:33:10 · answer #5 · answered by Bamabrat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They cross their arms over their chest to protect their hearts. To kill a vampire, you must drive a wooden stake through their heart.
2006-10-17 17:43:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
That is how most people are set out in their caskets.
Its like they are praying.
May be the vampire is praying for his next victim
Just a very common thing.
2006-10-17 17:43:14 · answer #7 · answered by Floyd B 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To protect himself from being speared in the heart.
2006-10-18 00:16:47 · answer #8 · answered by lene123 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To block the wooden stick,they may trying to put threw he,s heart!Hollywood
2006-10-17 23:00:58 · answer #9 · answered by hollywood 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ever seen a person in a coffin when they are being burried? well thats the position they are in. . . or he's just lonely and hugs himself to sleep.. .
2006-10-17 17:44:38 · answer #10 · answered by ali kit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋