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ESOTERICshade ago

This is why garlic keeps vampires away. They can't tolerate garlic. That is what the old saying "wearing a string around your neck with garlic on it, or hanging it outside your house keeps vampires away." If they know your blood is full of garlic they don't want to drink it.


Among the most visible symptoms of the human skin disorder porphyria cutanea tarda are disfiguring light-induced blisters that can lead to extensive scarring and skin discoloration. Individuals suffering from severe cases of this and other forms of porphyria may exhibit excessive hair growth on their face and hands, gum degeneration, and neurological disorders. To manage their disease, porphyria patients need to stay out of the sun and should avoid a range of chemicals that can aggravate the symptoms, including certain metabolites that accumulate in garlic. One course of treatment includes repeated blood transfusions. These symptoms, disease management strategies, and treatments are clearly reminiscent of characteristics typically associated with vampires and werewolves, and it is widely assumed that folkloric reports of such beasts may, in fact, be based on the suffering of unfortunate individuals afflicted with porphyria.

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