FiniteBanjo@feddit.online to movies@piefed.socialEnglish · 16 days agoDoes anybody know that one movie where they throw grave dirt in front of a vampire to keep him busy and he counts it before it even hits the ground?message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up114
arrow-up114message-squareDoes anybody know that one movie where they throw grave dirt in front of a vampire to keep him busy and he counts it before it even hits the ground?FiniteBanjo@feddit.online to movies@piefed.socialEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareScrollerBall@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoNot sure it would be dirt. More likely to be small distinct things like seeds or rice.
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoWhen you place dirt from their grave in front of them the undead are forced to count the grains.
minus-squareScrollerBall@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoI think you are conflating a few different bits of lore. It was mustard seeds: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B-9eDJ4maak https://universalmonsters.fandom.com/wiki/Dracula_II:_Ascension
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-216 days agoStrange. Why would that even work? EDIT: Checks out, Macedonian Folklore published in 1903 cites it as an old Greek folklore. https://archive.org/details/macedonianfolkl01abbogoog/page/218/mode/2up?q=count
Not sure it would be dirt. More likely to be small distinct things like seeds or rice.
When you place dirt from their grave in front of them the undead are forced to count the grains.
I think you are conflating a few different bits of lore.
It was mustard seeds:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B-9eDJ4maak
https://universalmonsters.fandom.com/wiki/Dracula_II:_Ascension
Strange. Why would that even work?
EDIT: Checks out, Macedonian Folklore published in 1903 cites it as an old Greek folklore. https://archive.org/details/macedonianfolkl01abbogoog/page/218/mode/2up?q=count