Uncover the Chilling Secrets Inside a $4,000 19th-Century Vampire-Hunting Kit—If You Dare
Other similar vampire slayer kits have been discovered in recent years, but they have largely turned out to be fakes. Many of them were assembled in later decades using Victorian-era items for a semblance of authenticity.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer/IMDBStories about vampires have endured in popular culture for 200 years.
Despite the dubious origins of many vampire-slaying kits, it remains true that tales of vampires were once taken to be fact.
“The task of killing a vampire was extremely serious,” auctioneer Charles Hanson said of the early century vampire trends. “Items of religious significance, such as crucifixes and Bibles, were said to repel these monsters, hence their strong presence in the kit we have found.”
Such urban legends were often fueled by stories of unbelievably cruel figures, such as Vlad the Impaler who is believed to be the inspiration behind the dracula legend, and society’s misunderstanding of certain diseases which were assumed to be wrought by supernatural forces.
Hanson also noted the influence of pop culture toward the public’s historical fascination of vampires, having been a consistent presence in TV and media for more than a century from Bram Stoker’s 1897 classic Dracula to modern TV shows like the FX comedy What We Do in the Shadows.
The antique kit itself is expected to fetch an upwards of 3,000 British pounds or nearly $4,000. Well, nobody said killing vampires was cheap.
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