11.Silver can be toxic. Melting down silver creates toxic fumes and handling it can cause Argyria. Drinking too much colloidal silver as well as handling it can make your skin turn gray, and YOU can be mistaken for a vampire.

12.If you are going to make your own custom vampire-deflection or ba gua mirrors, know that "silvering" mirrors is a toxic process, and even though you may be wearing rubber gloves those chemicals can seap through and poison you.

13.Silver bullets can still injure human beings. No, wait, they can actually KILL human beings, so be careful where you point that suckhead-blaster.

14."Goth-weirdo" role players may be considered or classified as 'psychological vampires,' but it is still against the law to kill them.

15.Be careful with that pig-sticker when whittling your vampire-stakes. Many a slayer has accidentally put a big gash in his leg while carving up an aorta plunger.

16."Wolf's Bane," aka Aconite, while mentioned in the Bela Lugosi Dracula film, has never been mentioned anywhere in the real-life vampire historical folklore anywhere in the world, so it may be entirely useless, not to mention it is a deadly poison to humans so keep that crap away from children.

17.Garlic does mold and rot regardless of popular opinion, so be warned, it must be dried properly when making garlic wreaths and fashionable necklaces. Use alcohol or glycerine to make extracts, and keep it in the fridge.

18.Silver nitrate is highly toxic, even on your hands, vampire hunters in the movies may shoot up with it but its pretty severe. It will burn you, harm you and kill you. Many photographers who develop their own pictures have burns on their skin--permanant ugly scars, from this nasty chemical among other chemicals. Unless you are a professional developer, or manufacture mirrors, or a professional chemist, stay away from this stuff.

19.Many 'vampires' or so-called, self-proclaimed vampires dabble in black magic--the occult, voodoo or whatever they would like to call it at their convenience...its all real, beware, one can easily get "sucked" into their dark world by trying to match mystical wits. The best advice is to avoid these kinds of cultists and not get involved in their delusions. The unwise get mixed up in the weirdness that they never suspected could ever have been "real" and by the time they realize what is happening--its too late.

20.One good defense against vampires is a good sense of humor. Take it from Jack Crow, nothing pisses off a vampire more than denial of their delusional gothic-ness and pretense. "The power of Christ impales you!"

21.Nothing offends a vampire more than Christianity. For a number of reasons. Crosses don't always work on all vampires, but they really get pissed at good old 'Christian' beliefs. Sometimes the mere mention of God, Christ, or even any religion sends them into a tizzy fit. Use that. Its never fails. Whether you are a Christian or not, a few words about how Jesus turned water into wine or 'loaves and fishes' and they'll get excited and start frothing at the mouth about how there's no proof that God exists and how Jesus never existed at all and so on. So sit back and watch them babble on. Enjoy.

22.Don't be intimidated when they mock your religion if you have one or tell you that God doesn't exist. Ignore their pretense and well-worn out debating tactics about how only magic can save you or how religion has no effect against vampires, or that Jesus was a woman or something like that. Stay strong in your beliefs--whatever they may be--it never fails to piss them off.

23.When dealing with emotional vampires, or "psychological vampires" know that you have a free will. Free will is the ultimate weapon against the influencers. You are your own person, and though they will try to knock you down, word by word, deed by deed, ultimately your life and goals are your own--don't be intimidated.

24.The "art" of vampire hunting is like Kung Fu. The stake, the Cross, the holy water, garlic, silver, hawthorne, and mirrors are all very significant symbols, not merely blunt weapons to use to beat vampires into an ashen powder. Each symbol, long standing in the traditions and folklore contain certain wisdom within their symbolic nature. Ultimately, these meanings are the power of the symbols themselves, the power over vampires.

25.It never hurts to scientifically study the phenomena, but be prepared when logic doesn't apply.

26.Never use the vampire-slayer methodology for political reasons, many have tried this in third world countries to prop up dictatorships and cast dispersions on certain minorities. Vampirism is a wide ranging spectrum of negative human parasitic behavior, not always the plague of the undead.

27.Explosives are dangerous. Garlic bombs and silver nitrate booby-traps can harm and injure innocent bystanders. Never use explosives on vampires, a more meticulous and detail-oriented approach is warranted.

28.Be one with the Garlic.

29.Always drink plenty of clean water. Running water IS good for you, it generates negative ions, and regardless of the term, its good for you and take plenty of showers. Water has many properties for the vampire hunter to understand and learn from.

30.Follow your heart. A healthy human heart, the understanding(not denial, eradication or elimination) of emotions is a good defense against vampirism.