Collected Folklore Deterrents in One Easy-Toss Solution
Be a modern Van Helsing with garlic, hawthorn, crucifixes, mustard seed, salt, rose petals, iron…
…all combined in a single “throwable” glass bulb that can shatter and distract any and all vampires in pursuit — European ones, anyway. The folk remedies in this bottle-bomb are recorded in Emily Girard’s 1888 The Land Beyond the Forest: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania (a book that Bram Stoker used nine years later to develop his 1897 classic Dracula) and folklore shared in Alan Dundes’s Vampire: A Casebook — including Friedrich S. Krauss’s 1892 essay “South Slavic Countermeasures Against Vampires”.
I combine these folk remedies into a corked glass bottle decorated with knotted hemp twine, stamped sealing wax, and a handwritten tag.
I typically sell the Anti-Vampire Bottle Bombs for $25; unfortunately, they’re too delicate to ship, so are only available at in-person events or markets. Contact me if you want to figure out an alternate delivery method or have any questions, though!
Katherine Crighton 