Chapter 16
Baron Vordenburg's exposition on vampire nature — the rules of vampirism, the anagram constraint (Mircalla/Carmilla/Millarca), and the requirement of consecrated destruction.
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Le Fanu codifies much vampire folklore that Stoker would later draw upon: anagrammatic names, the need to sleep in native earth, vulnerability to stake and fire.
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