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conulyAs I left, I noticed the wire hanging between the lamposts right outside, and my thoughts went like this:
1. What's that?
2. Probably just that Jewish thing.
3. An eruv, obviously.
4. Huh. I wonder how that would affect vampires!
See, an eruv is a bit of legal fiction (religious-legal, not secular-law-legal) that allows observant Jews to treat an enclosed space like one big home for the sake of various rules on the Sabbath. It's all there on Wikipedia, I linked to it.
And we know that vampires generally can't go into people's homes, right? And we know that they generally are repelled by crosses and/or religious symbols in general (either theirs or yours depending on who's writing this stuff), so you put this all together and - voila! It ought to ward off at least some vampires some of the time, right? If it's a "your religious symbols" universe then they should all be kept out, at least from sundown Friday through sundown Saturday, and if it's a "my symbols" then it should at least work on the Jewish ones.
Though you have to ask, would inviting a vampire into your enclosed, eruv-ified space also give them access to people's houses within that space?
Coming home I went straight to google and established that a. I'm right about it being one (and who knew googlemaps had this feature?) and b. I am definitely not the first person to think about this!
1. What's that?
2. Probably just that Jewish thing.
3. An eruv, obviously.
4. Huh. I wonder how that would affect vampires!
See, an eruv is a bit of legal fiction (religious-legal, not secular-law-legal) that allows observant Jews to treat an enclosed space like one big home for the sake of various rules on the Sabbath. It's all there on Wikipedia, I linked to it.
And we know that vampires generally can't go into people's homes, right? And we know that they generally are repelled by crosses and/or religious symbols in general (either theirs or yours depending on who's writing this stuff), so you put this all together and - voila! It ought to ward off at least some vampires some of the time, right? If it's a "your religious symbols" universe then they should all be kept out, at least from sundown Friday through sundown Saturday, and if it's a "my symbols" then it should at least work on the Jewish ones.
Though you have to ask, would inviting a vampire into your enclosed, eruv-ified space also give them access to people's houses within that space?
Coming home I went straight to google and established that a. I'm right about it being one (and who knew googlemaps had this feature?) and b. I am definitely not the first person to think about this!
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Date: 2012-08-15 03:01 am (UTC)Can anyone invite them in, or does it have to be a Jew?
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Date: 2012-08-15 05:03 am (UTC)And I'd guess anybody can invite them in. Or, at least, anybody who understands about the eruv, whether they believe it or not.