Regarding Vampires and reflections

Rating: Null/10 (23 August 2004)

I only read through about the first 20 comments, but there must have been 5 references to vampires not casting reflections in mirrors. That's not a true piece of folklore. It comes from the later period in Eastern Europe, when the Church was branding Vampires as Satanic. Mirrors, at the time, were commonly thought to reflect the soul rather than a physical image. Vampires were Satanic demons, therefore they had no souls, and therefore no reflection. But in most modern vampiric lore, notable the Vampire: The Masquerade RPG so many have mentioned in relation to this film, vampires do indeed cast reflections in mirrors. (Note to gamers: except for the Lasombra Clan, it's their clan weakness!)