«Pueden ver en la noche, lo cual no es un poder menor en un mundo que siempre tiene una mitad a oscuras. (...) No pueden entrar a cualquier sitio a no ser que alguno de la casa lo invite a pasar la primera vez. Luego sí puede entrar cuando le plazca. Sus poderes cesan, como lo hacen los de todas las fuerzas del mal, al comenzar el día. Sólo en algunas oportunidades puede tener completa libertad. Si no está en su sitio, donde le es obligado permanecer, sólo puede volver a él al mediodía o exactamente a la hora de la salida o a la puesta del sol. (...) De modo que puede hacer lo que quiera dentro de sus límites cuando tiene su tierra, su ataúd, su infierno, su sitio impío... (...) Se dice también que sólo puede atravesar el agua en movimiento por los remansos o por las zonas menos profundas cuando sube la marea. Luego hay cosas que le afectan tanto que pierde sus poderes, como el ajo, lo que todos ya sabemos, y en cuanto a los símbolos sagrados, como mi crucifijo, que está con nosotros incluso ahora mientras debatimos; pero cuando está presente busca un lugar alejado y permanece silencioso y respetuoso. (...) Una rama de rosa salvaje sobre su ataúd evita que salga de él, una bala consagrada disparada dentro de su féretro lo mata de modo que muere de verdad; en cuanto a una estaca que lo atraviese, sabemos ya que lo lleva a la paz, y el corte en la cabeza le trae el descanso».
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He can see
in the dark, no small power this, in a world which is one half shut
from the light. (...)
He may not enter anywhere at
the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to
come, though afterwards he can come as he please. His power ceases,
as does that of all evil things, at the coming of the day.
"Only at certain times can he have limited freedom. If he be not at
the place whither he is bound, he can only change himself at noon or
at exact sunrise or sunset. These things we are told, and in this
record of ours we have proof by inference. Thus, whereas he can do as
he will within his limit, when he have his earth-home, his
coffin-home, his hell-home, the place unhallowed, as we saw when he
went to the grave of the suicide at Whitby, still at other time he can
only change when the time come. It is said, too, that he can only
pass running water at the slack or the flood of the tide. Then there
are things which so afflict him that he has no power, as the garlic
that we know of, and as for things sacred, as this symbol, my
crucifix, that was amongst us even now when we resolve, to them he is
nothing, but in their presence he take his place far off and silent
with respect. There are others, too, which I shall tell you of, lest
in our seeking we may need them.
"The branch of wild rose on his coffin keep him that he move not from
it, a sacred bullet fired into the coffin kill him so that he be true
dead, and as for the stake through him, we know already of its peace,
or the cut off head that giveth rest. We have seen it with our eyes.
"Thus when we find the habitation of this man-that-was, we can confine
him to his coffin and destroy him, if we obey what we know. But he is
clever. I have asked my friend Arminius, of Buda-Pesth University, to
make his record, and from all the means that are, he tell me of what
he has been. He must, indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won
his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier
of Turkeyland. If it be so, then was he no common man, for in that
time, and for centuries after, he was spoken of as the cleverest and
the most cunning, as well as the bravest of the sons of the 'land
beyond the forest.' That mighty brain and that iron resolution went
with him to his grave, and are even now arrayed against us. The
Draculas were, says Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and
again were scions who were held by their coevals to have had dealings
with the Evil One. They learned his secrets in the Scholomance,
amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims
the tenth scholar as his due. In the records are such words as
'stregoica' witch, 'ordog' and 'pokol' Satan and hell, and in one
manuscript this very Dracula is spoken of as 'wampyr,' which we all
understand too well. There have been from the loins of this very one
great men and good women, and their graves make sacred the earth where
alone this foulness can dwell. For it is not the least of its terrors
that this evil thing is rooted deep in all good, in soil barren of
holy memories it cannot rest."
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