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Vampires and Arithmomania

ccording to folklore, vampires have an obsessive compulsion to count. The idea of an undead creature murdering and/or consuming the living is found in a host of cultures around the world.

The idea of an undead creature murdering and/or consuming the living is found in a host of cultures around the world. People took advantage of this by scattering seeds, salt, grains of rice, or whatever else they had in tiny sizes & large numbers, on the floor of their houses. In the X-Files episode “Bad Blood” a drugged Mulder defends himself against a vampire by throwing a bag of sunflower seeds on the floor.

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