Holy Water is water that has been blessed by a member of the clergy. Like other religious symbols (such as the crucifix) it burns vampires, and can even kill them if it touches them in large amounts. Holy water has been used as a weapon occasionally in the Buffyverse:
- In 1.02 The Harvest, Willow threw holy water on Darla.
- In 2.10 What’s My Line? (Part Two), Drusilla tortured Angel by dripping holy water on him.
- Buffy tricked Zachary Kralik into drinking holy water in 3.12 Helpless.
- In 3.08 Lover’s Walk, Buffy, Angel and Spike warded off attacking vampires by throwing holy water at them.
- Buffy gave Andrew a bottle of holy water as a weapon in 7.11 Showtime. Later, when the Scoobies and the Potentials hide while Buffy distracts the Turok-Han, Buffy takes the bottle from Andrew and then uses it against the Turok-Han, smashing it in the face.
Related episodes: 1.02 The Harvest, 2.10 What's My Line? (Part Two), 3.08 Lover's Walk, 3.12 Helpless
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Buffyfan29 on December 7th, 2006 at 10:42 am
There’s something about the whole Holy Water thing that bugs me, crosses too. If vampires predate the crusifixion of Christ, which in the series they obviously do, then why are they affected Christian symbols? What about the vamps over 2007 years old, did they just start being affected after Jesus was crusified? What were they deterred by before then?
Not all vampire stories have the undead being affected by crosses (though the classic legend certainly does). In Anne Rice’s “Interview With a Vampire” Louis states that he enjoys looking at crusifixes. Another modern vampire storyline was that of the movie “Dracula 2000″ which has the first vampire as being Jesus’s betrayer Judas who, after hanging himself to escape his guilt, wasn’t allowed to die.
Perhaps I just think too much, but I’ve never found a reasonable explaination for this.
Another little piece of trivia however is that a wooden stake wasn’t originally used to kill a vampire. In the middle ages, when the modern vampire legends really began, any corpse thought to be a vampire was staked by having a long wooden stake driven through the body and lower portion of the coffin and into the ground below. The idea wasn’t to kill the vampire, which was thought to be already dead and therefore more or less unkillable, but rather to stake the fiend to the ground, permanantly trapping it in the grave.