4/24 Concluding thoughts on Dracula and Vampy things

Well, this was all sorts of what I wasn't expecting. Besides not being set in the country (Transylvania in specific), for most of the novel, Lucy's three suitors aiding in killing Dracula was not lurking in my mind. Also, what the hell? Why did Quincey have to die??? Rude. More importantly, where the hell was Van Helsing getting all of the communion wafers from? The man must have bags up bags that he pulls out of nowhere. Is he like Legolas and constantly having arrows even though, visually, he clearly only has a handful?

Also, am I right in reading that Dracula could turn into a wolf? Is he a mixture of vampire and werewolf? If so, it would make sense as to why he has hairy palms. Otherwise, I can only guess that he's like a spider, and the hairy palms are how he sticks to walls. =_=

On another note, apparently vampires having arithmomania is a thing? You apparently always have a bag of rice on you and if you come across a vampire, you throw rice and they'll be compelled to count the grains, giving you enough time to run away.

Another fun fact, apparently in the Balkans, vampires didn't have any bones and that's how you would identify them, or so I've read. And apparently if a vampire and a human have a child, a dhampir, the child will also be boneless. It's a strange notion, but this got me thinking, it was never mentioned if Dracula and his brides had offspring. Were they unable to because they're undead? I know in Van Helsing, they did have offspring (and lots of them).

If the women are no longer able to have children due to being dead, then logically the male vamps wouldn't be able to as well, so how would vampires have children (for the Balkan mythology)? Would it then be like with Blade and his mother being bitten by a vampire while she was pregnant with him?

It's amazing just how much vampire lore has expanded and been built upon since Dracula, but also very confusing as there are conflicting viewpoints and "facts," although conflicting myths have always been a thing (looking at you Greek mythology).