The other thing is the whole stake through the heart, which modern vampire lore has completely misunderstood.
You know why they hammered a wooden stake through the heart of a suspected vampire? You open the coffin, and there’s the dead corpse. Is it a vampire or just a dead guy? Well, if you nail it in place with a giant wooden stake it doesn’t matter, it’s not getting up to wander the night any time soon.
Nailing with wooden nails? I’m calling shenanigans! You’d at least have to use superglue or mighty putty.
Hmmm…colloidal silver, perhaps in the public water supply, taken as a prophylactic, or administered at checkpoints? There are some potential side effects, of course…
On a related note, we’d really need some solid experimental data to determine the concentration of silver in a solution needed to be effective against werewolves before I can sign off on disseminating it as an aerosol through fighter-bomber spray tanks as an area-denial or anti-personnel measure. Conventional water bombers might be more practical, anyway.
It seems to me that the werewolves in Being Human are somewhat different from what a “traditional” werewolf is, mostly because of the whole scratch vs. bite aspect. Since it’s all fiction, however, the creators have the leeway to do what they want with their characters.
Which leads me to wonder how these English-version werewolves react to big bowls of beef chow main or pina coladas. As I understand, the werewolves of London are big fans of them.
This is canonical according to Buffy.
Again, according to *Buffy *-- well, according to Spike, actually – it’s only Dracula. “Just showy Gipsy stuff”.