Your Own Personal Mythos: Vampires

WHEN YOU WANT TO KILL A VAMPIRE....

...or a werewolf...or a witch...or just sit and have a sandwich with an ogre, it is imperative to know what mythos the realm or plane of existence you are inhabiting subscribes to.

Do vampires react to garlic? Crosses? How about garlic crosses?

Do you actually have to melt down your grandmother's silver spoons to make a bullet to kill a werewolf?

Or are there actually legitimately prescribed methods and rules involved at all with mythological creatures...(ahem, sorry...) I mean real-ish possibly impractical but nonetheless monsters with a well established fan base? Perhaps, it may just be a matter of belief. If you believe hard enough that a stake through the heart will kill nosferatu, it will. Then again, a stake through the heart will kill pretty much anything if you do it right. (who said that? I'm fairly sure it isn't original.)

In any case, I find with more and more creative writing classes, books by various authors (some great, some small), and the plethora of random webzines, websites, webs of death...that everyone seems to have their own concept of what is "true," and what is pure and absolute drivel.  And everyone seems pretty fervent about the idea that they are right and you are wrong...


Example: Vampires DON'T SPARKLE!!! -anonymous


Therefore, WHAT IS YOUR PERSONAL MYTHOS???