“The best way to deal with vampires, of course, is to prevent them from coming back in the first place. A few centuries ago in Europe, this was often accomplished by staking suspected vampires in their graves; the idea was to physically pin the vampire to the earth, and the chest was chosen because it's the trunk of the body. This traditional way is to use wooden stakes on them targeting their hearts. However, many other magical creatures — fear iron, so an iron bar would be even more effective than a wooden stake. Other traditional methods of killing vampires include decapitation and stuffing the severed head's mouth with garlic or a brick. Some traditions hold that vampires cannot enter a home unless formally invited in. This may have been an early form of the modern stranger danger warn
