Much of the source material used to inform these practices was gleaned from meticulous recording of local folklore, 5 with origins in the middle ages - long before the discovery of New World vampire bats (ie, Desmodus and other genera). It is said that Dracula’s aversion to garlic was because it “so afflicts him that he has no power”. 4 Dracula nevertheless manages to bite Lucy and transform her into a vampire, necessitating her vanquishing by wooden stake and having her mouth filled with garlic.
Later, the Dutch vampire hunter Professor Van Helsing ( Box 2) uses garlic flowers to protect Lucy Westenra by decking her room with them, rubbing them all around the window sashes, the door and the fireplace, and fixing her with a “wreath of garlic round her neck”. 4 There, Johnathan Harker was given garlic for protection when travelling to Dracula’s castle. The most famous vampire, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, had a clear aversion to garlic, as recorded in 1897 in the Romanian city of Bistritz. The historical association between garlic and vampire behaviour
In this article, we focus on the efficacy of one traditional preventive intervention: garlic ( Box 1). 3 To minimise the public health impact of attacks, we believe it is timely to review the available interventions to deter vampires. 3 Apart from the direct impact on victims, attacks can have a flow‐on effect on health systems and economic productivity for example, with reductions in voluntary blood donations and reduced tourism.
At such times, the world is at a heightened risk of a “vampiregeddon”, with recent attacks reported both in high 1, 2 and low income countries. The years 2020–2021 have bordered on apocalyptic - environmentally, politically and medically.
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