• TheFogan@programming.dev
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    8 hours ago

    I mean you are welcome to do some research as well, but so far, I’ve done a lot of searching, as I said I found results on Silver and Garlic, but I can’t find anything that predates 1922 in which vampires seem to have any kind actual death. There’s a few notes of vampires that are non powered normal people around sunlight, which I guess could count as a weakness. But that wouldn’t make any actual tattoos like the shower thought we’re discussing here.

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      1 hour ago

      Sorry, tonight I can only go as far as Wikipedia

      If an upiór harassed a human at night, the remedy was to stop the upiór returning to its grave - at dawn it would disappear or change into black tar

      There are two citations for that sentence but digging out the sources is too much for me tonight. Maybe there is the reasoning behind changing into tar and reference to some older sources

      I think there might have been also some mention of power of the sun in some Mickiewicz work. But apparently not in “Upiór”. There it complains to Venus

      But true, that is not exactly the express-sunburn OP wrote about