General "Did you Know?"s

[gamemaster1991]

Did you know that most of weaknesses of vampires were added by the Dracula movies? Originally, vampires only had a few rules (I may be missing a few):
1. Can't go into houses unless invited in.
2. Can't pass though running water (then meaning a stream or river).
3. Sunlight takes away powers, not kills them.
4. They can turn into a number of different animals including a wolf and a bat.
5. The only ways to kill one is to cut off it's head and stab it though the heart or shoot it in the heart with a silver/regular (I don't remember witch one it is) bullet.

As time has gone on, rules have been changed (sunlight now kills them instead of removes there powers and they can only become bats) and more and more weaknesses have been added, to the point that I'm surprised they can't be killed by the common cold.

I wanted to add this becuse, apparently, everyone still thinks that Twilight is adding stupid rules (Dracula started it first), Dracula is the first Vampire (he was not), and the water rule does not exist (this one coming from the NC's BloodRyane review). It also shows you how much infomation gets lost as time goes along.