Two more generous portions of mujdei were brought in and finished in a matter of minutes, both as a sauce for the fish or simply spread on bread. Deemed irreplaceable in flavouring steaks and other foods, garlic has always been a widespread crop in Romania.
Present on every menu, the popular skinless ground beef and pork sausages known as mici owe their juicy, savoury taste to the generous amount of garlic in the recipe. Aside from being an essential ingredient in Romanian cuisine, garlic has long been thought of as a magical plant. On the eve of Saint Andrew the patron saint of Romania on 29 November, garlic is believed to keep you safe against strigoi and moroi , evil spirits of those passed on that haunt the household of relatives still living.
A Romanian Halloween of sorts, residents of rural areas both eat garlic and smear it on the corners of windows and doors to protect themselves. Rows of garlic can be seen hanging with the same purpose.
In Romania, garlic is considered a more powerful natural medicine than most antibiotics, due to a compound called allicin released when the garlic is chopped or crushed that has similar properties as penicillin, and dishes such as garlic soup made with roasted garlic heads blended with carrots, onions, potatoes, parsnip and celery are served to combat the flu.
And the literary folks have really played this up in their stories of vampires. After neighbors complained that Paole was leaving his grave to throttle them at night, villagers dug him up and put a stake through his heart. Oh, and if you happen to be short of wood, you could also just stab a vampire with whatever else is sharp and handy. There are constant historical anecdotes where people behead and burn suspected vampires.
Subsequent outbreaks—including one in and that likely killed ID6—ravaged the city again over the two centuries that followed. Perhaps six weeks after burial, she was exhumed and a brick placed carefully between her teeth. As it nibbles away, by some occult process, it also slowly kills the surviving members of its family. It may then begin gobbling corpses in neighboring graves.
Andre is unaffected, and almost as amused. Discworld : Garlic is one of the ways the wizards consider getting rid of Windle Poons who's actually a zombie anyway in Reaper Man , as is a stake. The conversation then descends into whether or not you should put garlic on a steak. Somehow, they end up trying to use celery. The Magpyrs in Carpe Jugulum have trained themselves out of this, as they have all vampire weaknesses. Count Magpyr : Garlic is just another member of the allium family.
Do onions hurt us? Are we frightened of shallots? Live-Action TV. Implied in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We see cloves of garlic used in preparation against vampires, but the actual effects are never shown. The implication is that Nick has the traditional garlic weakness.
The fear itself seems to be his only problem; once he starts cooking with it, he's perfectly fine. One of the weapons Donatello devises is a squirt gun filled with garlic juice, but it isn't shown to be very effective when he uses it on Bing.
In The Office US , Jim is bitten by a bat and decides to prank Dwight by making him think he was turning into a vampire. One of the first hints he gives is acting as if he was burned from touching garlic bread. Averted in an episode of So Weird. Fi confronts a secret cadre of vampires and wields several cloves of garlic against their leader. He takes the garlic and inhales deeply, commenting on how much he likes the scent.
He then proceeds to take her homemade crucifix and toss it on a pile of stakes, crosses and other common anti-vampire implements, claiming that none of them work. Played for laughs in "Monster Movie".
The Villain of the Week is a shapeshifter who's a fan of old horror movies. In one scene he's putting on his best Bela Lugosi impersonation when a pizza delivery guy rings the doorbell. Pizza Guy: I don't know. Did you order garlic? Pizza Guy: bored Then no, there isn't any garlic on it.
In a John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme skit, about someone booking a destination wedding at what is clearly Castle Dracula, Igor claims that quaint local customs prohibit garlic from being served at the reception.
Tabletop Games. Chronicles of Darkness : Vampire: The Requiem plays with this trope in a manner similar to its spiritual predecessor; once again, aversion to garlic isn't usually a weakness vampires have, but starting with the Second Edition, it's possible for them to accept part of the Beast in them in order to better keep it in check, at the cost of developing new, unique weaknesses known as "Bane".
One of the suggested Banes is an aversion to a specific substance, which can indeed be Garlic. Hunter: The Vigil has this trope invoked by the Cainite Conspiracy , who can use a blood rite to actually make garlic harmful to vampires.
In 1st Edition "Vampires recoil from strong garlic" and in 2nd Edition "The odor of strong garlic repels them and they will not approach it.
If your Director is using the alternative "Telluric Vampire" build, garlic only has an effect if it was not grown in the vampire's native soil — grabbing a few cloves at a Romanian market before heading after Dracula is a waste of time. Vampire: The Masquerade : While most vampires avert this trope, you can play it straight by taking the Repelled by Garlic flaw.
The villagers who gather at Chagal's inn in Tanz Der Vampire certainly believe this, with an entire show-opening ode to garlic as a cure-all for everything from old age to erectile dysfunction, followed by a certain caginess around admitting to the local presence of vampires at all. The actual vampires of the setting seem more or less unfazed by it, suggesting it's a desperate placebo on the villagers' part. Trading Cards. The Killer Cards card "Vampires" depicts a vampire about to bite a woman, unaware that a boy is preparing a trap that will dump a bucket of garlic syrup upon the vampire.
Video Games. The Darkside Detective : A Fumble in the Dark : Played with; one character is a reverse-vampire, with inverted versions of the traditional vampiric weaknesses, and garlic is his favorite food.
While the myth of vampires being weak to garlic is known in The Elder Scrolls , it isn't an accurate myth It doesn't kill him, but it makes him very easy to kill. Alchemically, garlic has the "Resist Disease" effect, so while it can't be used against vampires, it can be used to create a potion that can prevent you from becoming one. Developing a cure for vampirism also requires a whopping six samples of garlic.
In Guilty Gear , this is averted by the resident vampire Slayer, who even eats garlic for breakfast and lunch AND dinner. Played differently in Plants vs. Garlic is one of your plants available to use against the zombies. He doesn't exactly scare zombies away, but he can, upon being bitten, redirect the zombie eating it away from his lane, making him useful for protecting the plants behind him and redirecting the zombies onto a more dangerous line. Zombies: Heroes has the Garlic.
Any zombie teammate attacking it is forced into the lane on the left, unless it's a Vimpire, in which the Vimpire dies instantly instead.
Every house in Quest for Glory IV is adorned with huge amounts of garlic, and garlic is a major condiment in virtually every meal to the point where the standard field ration is a garlic and avocado sandwich. Seeing as the valley is home to the carcass of an Eldritch Abomination , so they have good reason.
RuneScape uses this in two quests: Vampire Slayer, in which holding garlic in your inventory weakens the vampire so he can be slain, and Fishing Contest, in which using garlic in a certain place will chase a vampire away from an ideal fishing spot that he is occupying.
Downplayed in The Sims 3. Vampires are fine with garlic as long as they don't actually ingest it, whether directly in a food that contains garlic , or secondhand by ingesting the plasma of a person who recently ate something that had garlic in it. Even then, the garlic only makes vampires ill, and generally not in a life-threatening unlife-threatening?
In The Sims 4 , unless vampires have the Garlic Immunity power, vampires will be too uncomfortable to drink plasma while under the effects of garlic's stench.
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