Couldn’t resist: Reference dot com tells me there are 1,812 grains of rice per oz. At 16 oz. to the pound, the potential victim threw a 269.85 pound (122.4 kg) bag of rice!
(How Much Does a Single Grain of Rice Weigh?)
I kinda think if Tattoos worked Van Helsing would have had one on his forehead.
I was too lazy to look it up/calculate it, but I mean this in all honesty: This is why I love this place.
Me too! 
Chess playing, vampires in silk dressing gowns eating blood popsicles would not be repulsed by medieval anti vampire apparatus like garlic or crucifixes imho.
I saw this idea used in a comic book. A crazy homeless guy believed in vampires. But he also had a hubcap he had found in the streets that he believed was a holy shield that protected him from vampires. And it worked because he really believed it.
There’s a vampire movie from the '80s (I want to say Once Bitten) where a vampire attacks a Yuppie, who drives it off by brandishing a symbol of his true faith: his wallet.
On the other end of the spectrum, Peter Watt’s novel Blindsight posits vampires as a human offshoot, who evolved a neural processing glitch that gives them seizures when they see a right angle. Nothing to do with faith at all, just a variation on chicken hypnosis.
The animated Castlevania series suggested something similar-it interferes with their spacial awareness.
What would happen to the cross tattoo guy if he got bit by a vampire? Would his tattoos burst into flame?
I have to ask - what movie is that from? And is that Tilda Swinton?
It’s called “Only Lovers Left Alive” and that is indeed Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston.
This movie gets under your skin.
It’s possible that Tilda Swinton is an actual vampire.
To settle the matter.
“Oy, have you got the wrong vampire.”
The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1966
Would a cross tattoo repel a vampire?
Yes, but only edgy, angst-filled, young vampires.
I always found that the dumbest part of his whole vampire conception - nature is lousy with right angles.
I think tattoos are skeezy, so it would repel me (IF I were a vampire).
Nature has plenty of them, men make even more. Are vampires supposed to live in caves? Where in the world could they avoid right angles?
Rock joints are one of the most widespread right-angle sources in nature…like I said, lousy with them.
Bottom of the ocean?
Do the angles have to be exactly 90 degrees to repel a vampire? What’s the degree of tolerance?