It’s probably along the same lines as harmlessly detecting the fecal particles in a fart as opposed to ingesting an entire turd and dying of a massive ecoli infection.
I don’t know if it would hurt the vampire, but it gave me raging heatburn! Oh, and an image of an upside down crucifix on my tongue. Not sure why…
Far too late.
You can already buy Holy Water from Lourdes, Fatima, Guadalupe, and the River Jordan from www.DiscountCatholicStore.com – online, credit cards accepted, rush shipping available, etc.
Well, sure, but do they include a warranty against demonic possession?
My family wasn’t Catholic, but my sisters went to a Catholic elementary school (only affordable private school in the area), and I remember one of them mentioning to me that if holy water was used for some non-holy purpose then it lost its holiness. I have no idea if this is real Catholic doctrine or not, but if true then it would seem that chugging a bunch of holy water would provide no protection against vampires.
I learned from Wikipediajust now that Catholic belief does allow holiness to spread from blessed water to unblessed water (a kind of holiness osmosis), but only if there was more holy water than unblessed water in the mixture. That is, 1 cup holy water + .999… cup unblessed water = 1.999… cups holy water, but .999… cup holy water + 1 cup unblessed water = 1.999… cups of plain old unblessed water.
I would take this to mean that even if holy water retained its holiness when you drank it, it would not make your bodily fluids holy unless you could manage to drink a quantity of holy water greater than the volume of your bodily fluids. I don’t think it’s possible to drink that much water at once, not without suffering from water poisoning.
I remember reading a comic a few years back (Human Defense Corps #1) where a fellow mixes holy water with some kind of flame retardant gel—the idea being to use it on a target area that had a bunch of vampires mixed in with (friendly) humans, and spread it around while reducing the risk of burning the people.
It gets dropped in napalm canisters from a pair of Bombcats.
While I’m on the subject, I thought I remembered seeing, many moons back, some setup where a specially prepared/blessed faucet was used, that could provide holy water on tap. Does that ring a bell with anyone else? I’d love to find out if that was legit.
It appears to be, but then again it looks a bit like something the church janitor bodged together on a slow workday so I’m not so sure it would convince a vampire. Apparently there are also holy water fountains in some places, and I can’t even imagine the spiritual logistics of that unless they handwave it by blessing all the water inside a given area.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Holy_water_St_Teresa%27s_church_Clarendon_Street_Dublin_2006_Kaihsu_Tai.jpg
I’ve had insomnia pretty bad this past month or so and we’ve geared down to basic cable as a cost cutting measure so late night/early morning TV is insane. But----there is some apparently serious religious person who will send you, for a small/medium/large donation, an absolutely free vial of “miracle water.” I’m not clear on what you do with it as I can’t force myself to watch long enough to learn. Maybe you drink it, I don’t know.
There is another religious dude who will, if you grace him with money, send you an absolutely free prayer cloth—it looks like maybe an eight inch square of red cloth that you hold/fondle/stroke or do something with while praying and it facilitates answers to your prayers. Honest, it does.
And I’ve seen one episode of some sort of religious program that offers a free oil soaked stone of ??? where ???=some biblical name that I can’t remember.
Surely one or all of the above would protect Satan himself from vampires. You guys just need to stay up later, taking pills to try to sleep and then discovering you’d rather take the pills than sleep anyway. Some doctors are way cool. Did I say that right? I’m old, you know.
If Christian, most likely either a stone soaked in River Jordan water (where Jesus was baptised). Or if a Muslim program, most likely soaked in water from the springs of Jericho, which ancient Arab writers referred to as the ‘highest and best water in all of Islam’.
I was under the impression that was the whole point of blessing grave ground, to prevent un-dead thing-a-ma-bobs from rising. Not just vampires but ghosts and zombies and Ricky Martin sort-of thing.
I never saw the Romero movies (horror flicks just aren’t my thing) but did holy objects do anything against the zombies?