What happens if you dont invite a vampire in

He is immune to the night, allergic to the day, to the light of God, to the sun. The only repellent to drive it away is garlic and the only way to kill it is by using ash wood. Vampires in the past were individuals with porphyria, a disease that caused problems for their skin following exposure to the sun. So they came out at sunset like owls, crickets, and bats.

Furthermore, the repellence to garlic was due to the fact that it is a spice that eliminates toxins and eliminates parasites, a category in which vampires also fell. Moreover, he cannot be invited since he is the embodiment of evil and would only bring pain and fear.

Even if Dracula was not invited, the idea that he could lure her to the window to feed his instincts is already set-up. Indeed, even if Van Helsing tries to defend her with garlic and other things, nothing works. Many questions arise regarding the link between vampires and spirituality, religion.

However, it is important to remember that since they are considered a symbol of evil and paganism, they cannot enter churches or sacred places voluntarily. Vampires are creatures of the night, deeply evil and far from nature, in legends they can be similar to demons, or they can be demons themselves who possess a body of a dead, obviously easier to animate, without will.

Evil is an abstract representation of sin. It cannot touch you, harm you unless there is a hint of will on the part of the human being. In summary, vampires cannot totally attack the man of faith.

Despite the resistance, however, many men remain tempted by the seductions of vampires, a mere mortal can fall to the lure of vampires, even due to a hypnotic and persuasive effect. Certainly, a vampire would avoid an encampment with Bigfoot and sentient werewolves watching over everyone! The Celtic Pagans , who birthed modern witchcraft, were the second to devise a method of protection from vampires. Individually Covens from all around the British Isles, including Ireland, devised various protection spells that worked to varying degrees.

Soon they organized and created an extremely powerful unified spell that called upon the Goddesses, and Gods to enchant homes all over the Isles. Unfortunately back then it was difficult to differentiate between private, and public places.

Other magical cultures around the world came up with similar protection spells. Although without a unified global spell there were gaps for vampires to take advantage of.

Long before there was telecommunications or even mail-delivered letter communication between cultures, there were mystical psychic communications. Centuries before explorers knew about far-off lands, those in the ancient paranormal community knew they existed. If they told anyone about their visions of distant lands they were generally laughed at or branded as being in league with the Devil!

It was thought that traveling too far from home would lead someone to the edge of the flat Earth. At some point in the past, all the various cultures of the world created a global paranormal psychic communications network. It was decided that a global vampire spell would be cast.

Naturally religious dwellings and hallowed grounds were always safe havens from the heathens of hell. The global spell called not only upon the Nature Deities but also the Angelic forces of Heaven as well.

Not even the most powerful vampire on Earth has been able to force their way through the bewitching barrier. In fact, not even the most powerful Sorcerer can break the force field around any home! This extended ownership even continues long after a person who has lived in the house for a significant amount leaves, and an invitation into a home can be extended even over the phone from thousands of miles away.

This was demonstrated by Jo Laughlin , who invited Stefan Salvatore into the Parker House despite the fact that she hadn't been there in almost twenty years, and that she was in Mystic Falls, Virginia while he was 3, miles away in Portland, Oregon. These invitation barriers are extremely strong, as they are among the few known ways to keep vampires at bay, if killing the owner is not an option. The barrier only holds for as long as the vampire remains uninvited, the owner s remain alive, and the dwelling remains standing.

If the vampire is invited in, the barrier magically disappears, and if the owner dies or is killed, the house will no longer have an invitation barrier so long as the house's ownership doesn't revert to another person, such as if it's left to a family member in a will. If a homeowner dies and is then resurrected, the magical invitation barrier is "deactivated" despite the owner returning to life, and it is unknown if the ownership can be refreshed in the case that this should happen.

Vampires who are unable to convince a human to invite them into their home have often been known to resort to other methods to enter the house, such as setting the house on fire to either destroy the home or to drive the humans inside out of the house and the protection it provides. Other methods of destruction will often yield the same effect, such as when Klaus started throwing fence pikes through the Gilbert House when he wasn't immediately extended an invitation.

Vampires have been known to use this weakness to their advantage by establishing a home with a human owner so as to keep other unfriendly vampires from gaining access to their homes without invitation. Some vampires even go so far as to compel their human title-holders not to give a specific vampire entry, such as when Frederick compelled Miss Gibbons not to allow Damon to enter her home, where Stefan was being held captive and tortured.

Ownership can apparently be tampered with, as the magical protection is based on signed legal documents. This was seen when the Salvatores opted to bestow ownership the Salvatore Boarding House to Elena so she could use it as a safe house after Klaus came to Mystic Falls. Elijah was able to bypass the protection of the Guerrera Mansion in a similar manner by having a city official to invoke eminent domain upon the home, giving it heritage status and therefore making the home open to the public without invitation.

If the ownership of a home changes while a vampire is still inside, there can be very violent side effects. The only snag is that the person who invited the vampire in has to be the one to revoke the invitation, which causes problems on Diego's route - Grace was the one who invited Victor Thorne into the house she and the protagonist live in, and since Grace is missing, there's no way to make the house safe from him, requiring the protagonist to stay over first at the bowling alley and then at Diego's house.

Web Comics. Came up in Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name ; Conrad smacked into the air when he tried to enter Ples's house with the rest of the crew, since technically all of them were trespassing. Sam in Sluggy Freelance has this restriction, but not every vampire in the Sluggyverse does.

On one occasion, Sam tracks down Dr. Schlock, who is decked out with every anti-vampire trick possible. He then points out Sam can't even enter his motel room without an invitation.

In a rare moment of intelligence, Sam pulls out a gun, shoots Dr. Schlock in the leg , and asks, "Can I come in? Cynthia and Nicole argue about whether or not a vampire could get into their car without being invited. Later, we see a vampire trapped outside of Nicole's house by some sort of forcefield while another is able to enter freely because Nicole invited him in.

Sort of used in Daniel. While the vampiric titular character seems to be able to enter any buildings as he pleases, he apparently needed an "invitation" back into the life of his love, Christine. In Deep Fried , a kid who's afraid of clowns tries to pull this on Beepo. Beepo's response? Alluded to in Darken. In Thistil Mistil Kistil , Loki's valley is supposed to work like this. The Kingfisher features vampires that require invitation. There are degrees of invitation and other complications, most of which isn't explained in the comic unless it becomes an issue.

Zebra Girl : Vampires can't come inside a home unless they have been invited. Sadly, a welcome mat counts as an invitation. Patrik The Vampire : Patrik needs an invitation to enter a residence and if that invitation is revoked he is throw right back out. In this case, just because you invite a vampire in, doesn't mean they're going to step foot inside your "haunted plague box".

In what might be a Call-Back , this strip has the female character conflate public health rules with common courtesy by claiming that now that she's vaccinated against COVID , she can visit a stranger's house freely.

Her confusion continues in the Alt Text when the homeowner objects, and she thinks they've mistaken her for a vampire that needs an explicit invitation. Homeowner: You still can't walk into someone's house without being invited! Woman: What? Oh, I see your confusion. No, this vaccine is for a bat virus. I'm fine with doorways and garlic and stuff. Web Original. How to Survive Camping : Many of the beings mentioned follow "hospitality laws", meaning they cannot enter someone's house unless they are invited in; it's even said that The Devil itself might be repelled for lack of invitation.

It's usually a very bad sign when one isn't bound by that rule. According to the man with a skull cup, humans used to follow these laws as well, but that tradition was lost to time.

While the little girl also needs to be invited in order to enter the owner's house, any point of entry left open counts as an invitation, as long as it has been opened by the proper resident of the house and is deemed a "formal" entrance i.

Given a modern twist in the Momo creepypasta series. Momo is only able to torment those who contact her on WhatsApp. Parodied in "Let Me In" , where TomSka has to deal with a vampire trying to convince him to let him into his home. And doing it badly until he pulls a cheap trick on Tom. Except he's actually Jehovah's Witness and not a vampire, meaning he was just being "polite".

Western Animation. Avengers Assemble : Hawkeye and Whitney Frost attempt to hold out against Dracula by using this trope. Dracula, being Dracula, finds a workaround by having his vampires simply tear the safehouse apart. Meatwad does exactly that, by asking them to come in just as a horde of them arrive outside the house. Jackie Chan Adventures : In one episode, when Hsi Wu, one of Shendu's demon brethren, gets released into the mortal world, he winds up losing his tail in the proce.

Jackie Chan and company manage to catch the tail and take it back to Uncle's shop. Knowing that the demon would want to come back for the tail, Uncle puts a Protective Charm on the shop which will keep all demons out unless invited inside. Hsi Wu then tricks Jade into inviting him inside by disguising himself as a boy at her school and pretending to be her friend. Also played in reverse in another episode where the group is exploring an ancient temple, and stuck in this temple is a girl cursed to become a monster in order to keep out intruders.

After the girl explains this, Jade reasons that they can't be intruding if the girl invites them in, allowing them to explore without triggering the curse. A family of vampires arrives and is confused that they continue to stand outside.

She forgot that vampires can't enter into someone's home without being invited inside. And they have to be invited in every time.

In the second special, they try to enter and hit a magical barrier. This appears in Archie's Weird Mysteries , when Riverdale is under attack by a vampire. The gang are all warned about how vampires can't enter a house unless they're invited, so they figure that they're all safe at Veronica's Halloween costume party.

Unfortunately, Smithers wasn't clued in on this in time. Peppermint Butler knows this and taunts him from the door. Later, Jake turns into a house for the others to hide in, and again Hierophant can't go in. Hierophant is finally defeated when a random character accidentally bumps into him and knocks him inside House Jake. He freaks out about entering without an invitation and turns to dust.

Curiously, none of the other vampires have this problem - the Hierophant seemed to be holding himself to a certain standard, as a self-proclaimed "old-school vampire". Subverted with the titular entities in "Blank Eyed Girl", who all come and go as they please despite the legends to the contrary.

In Gravity Falls , Bill Cipher can only enter someone's mind if they shake his hand and make a deal with him or in Gideon's case, enter someone's mind on another's behalf. This ends up playing a major part in the Grand Finale when he needs to enter Ford's mind to get the info he needs to escape Gravity Falls.

One Robot Chicken sketch has a vampire get around this by simply killing a man with a harpoon gun and pulling him out of his home. Subtly referenced in Castlevania When Dracula is shown in a flashback gathering an army for his destruction of mankind, he visits Isaac's home and asks to be invited inside, which Isaac obliges.

Given that this version of Dracula is a powerful Sorcerous Overlord who wouldn't usually care about being invited into a place, it's ambiguous if he actually needed to be invited or if it's simply a polite courtesy he extended to Isaac in particular. In The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters , the Grundel latches onto his victims by appearing before them and promising they'd have fun together if they were to let him in. Grundel: Come out and play, Child. Come out and play. Feedback Video Example s :.

Alternative Title s : Vampire Invitation.