# Which is the best detterant against Jewish vampires? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 3, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091 "2006-07-03T20:54:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/41 "2006-07-04T07:11:55Z")
An older book has vampires in England that says you can kill a vampire just about any way you do a man. The touch of the full moon will return them to life, so you needed to destroy the body or put it where the full moon never shines. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/42 "2006-07-04T07:27:58Z")
> [@Skald the Rhymer](#): > > …or whether Magneto, who pretty much worshipped mutancy, might have used a symbol of the X-Gene. 😃 One of the “300 things Mr Welch can no longer do in an RPG” comes to mind: 1. Not allowed to kill a vampire with any part from a DC-10 larger than my car. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/43 "2006-07-04T08:56:15Z")
> [@Flutterby](#): > > If you could find that story again, I’d love to read it. I _think_ it was in a sci-fi themed collection of vampire stories called _Tomorrow Sucks_. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/44 "2006-07-04T09:16:01Z")
> [@marque elf](#): > > The Star of David really isn’t the Jewish equivalent of a cross. It has no intrinsic holiness. Maybe if you hit the vamp with a torah though… That would work. I’m serious - if anything has intristic holiness in Judaism it’s the written word, with certain words having special significance. A Tora would do the job, as would _tfillin_; I doubt a Jewish vamp would be able to cross a threshold containing a _mezzuzah_, either. IMHO, the very sight of the Tetramogram (YHVH) would have basically the same efect as a cross, so I’d walk around with it written on a piece of paper, etxhed into a piece of metal or even felt-tipped on my forehead. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/45 "2006-07-04T10:25:54Z")
But not tattooed, of course. Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/46 "2006-07-04T11:28:53Z")
> [@Skald the Rhymer](#): > > hmm…what if it’s a Doombot? After all, they think they’re Doom except when in the presence of each other or the boss. Hrm… faith is “conviction without proof” - if a bot can have conviction, then the Doombot’s conviction of being the true Doom might count. ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/47 "2006-07-04T12:20:02Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > You could write your own vampire novel and make up your own rules. > > There’s no reason to take any horror author’s work as Gospel. Or, if you’re Ann Rice, you can make up your own rules, then 589 pages later, ignore the rules and make up some new ones. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/48 "2006-07-04T12:45:58Z")
Is this Jewish vampire an _observant_ Jew? If so, perhaps you could engage him in debate over some point or other, then quietly slip away while he’s trying to work out his position on the matter. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/49 "2006-07-04T12:49:37Z")
I’d say langoustine in an aioli cream sauce should do it. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/50 "2006-07-04T13:04:23Z")
> [@Harmonious Discord](#): > > An older book has vampires in England that says you can kill a vampire just about any way you do a man. The touch of the full moon will return them to life, so you needed to destroy the body or put it where the full moon never shines. _snertle_😃 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Clam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@Happy\_Clam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Clam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/51 "2006-07-04T13:34:17Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > _snertle_😃 Oy! I don’t know whether to feel sorry for the vampire or the hunter! Well, you know what they said about Van Helsing- man always acted like he had a bug up his ass! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/52 "2006-07-04T15:25:57Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Try Guilt. > > With the large “G”. Also works on Catholic Vampires. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/53 "2006-07-04T16:06:26Z")
Guilt. Victim: Oy, I suppose you’re going to suck my blood and leave me to change into a monster. Vampire: Well, yes, that’s how this sort of ting is usually done. Victim: Who will ask the questions at the Seder? Not to worry. My cousin Moshe. Mother _hates_ Moshe. Vampire: Well, maybe… Victim: Moshe drank Elijah’s wine last year. Vampire: Hey, look… Victim: Don’t worry! I’ll just lie here and transmogrify in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/54 "2006-07-04T17:16:54Z")
I was hoping someone would catch the phrasing on that one. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/55 "2006-07-04T17:24:55Z")
> [@Happy Clam](#): > > **Booming Voice** : I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD, WHO DELIVERED YOUR PEOPLE OUT OF ISRAEL Out of EGYPT. Anyway, this _has_ been covered on Buffy, my personal guide to all thing vampiric. I can’t believe none of you nerds remember that Willow - who’s Jewish - is a vampire in the alternate universe where Buffy never comes to Sunnydale. (As covered in the Season 3 episodes _The Wish_ and _Dopplegangland_.) I don’t recall her being scared away by a cross, but she leaves Cordy alone after Wesley threatens her with a bottleof holy water. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/56 "2006-07-04T17:43:19Z")
Aren’t she and vampire Xander kept from entering the book cage by one of the characters (Oz? Larry?) brandishing a handy cross after they drain Cordy? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Clam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@Happy\_Clam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Clam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/57 "2006-07-04T17:52:12Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Out of EGYPT. > > Anyway, this _has_ been covered on Buffy, my personal guide to all thing vampiric. I can’t believe none of you nerds remember that Willow - who’s Jewish - is a vampire in the alternate universe where Buffy never comes to Sunnydale. (As covered in the Season 3 episodes _The Wish_ and _Dopplegangland_.) I don’t recall her being scared away by a cross, but she leaves Cordy alone after Wesley threatens her with a bottleof holy water. Yeah, I was kinda hoping no-one would catch that (could we not have an edit function in MPSIMS, at least?). So Joss Whedon and I are agreed- holy water=dead Jewish vampire. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091/58 "2006-07-04T18:31:58Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Aren’t she and vampire Xander kept from entering the book cage by one of the characters (Oz? Larry?) brandishing a handy cross after they drain Cordy? Oooh, I think so. And, though it violates the X-Men’s rules of vampires, Willow also uses a cross to keep Angelus away at one point. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-the-best-detterant-against-jewish-vampires/363091.md?page=2)