As I recall, the “Vampires have no reflection” stemmed from mirrors of the time usually being polished silver. So, I guess the vampire can do this if they’re okay with having silver pressed up against their face.
Pretty sure they just poured silver nitrate over glass. You can still buy kits to do that to re-silver old mirrors for the original look. From what I can find, the layered ones were older, and they used tin and mercury which made breaking a mirror a rather unlucky event.
Can confirm. I’m not a vampire but I sold my soul for a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos back im 6th grade. Since then I haven’t seen my reflection or been able to use an automatic door.
As I recall, the “Vampires have no reflection” stemmed from mirrors of the time usually being polished silver. So, I guess the vampire can do this if they’re okay with having silver pressed up against their face.
How does that guy with smoke coming out of his eye patch always know when I’m sneaking up on him?? At night. While he’s screaming.
Clearly, because he’s part bat, the screaming is a kind of echolocation.
Tbf the silver is behind the layer of glass
Pretty sure they just poured silver nitrate over glass. You can still buy kits to do that to re-silver old mirrors for the original look. From what I can find, the layered ones were older, and they used tin and mercury which made breaking a mirror a rather unlucky event.
I’m sure there are varying methods, but typically you silver the back of glass to make a mirror
I think you are right. I keep finding different ways they did it, so sounds like the 1800s was a busy period in the development of mirror technology!
Huh, so 7 years bad luck was actually just heavy metal poisoning? Fascinating…
I always heard it was about not having a soul.
Can confirm. I’m not a vampire but I sold my soul for a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos back im 6th grade. Since then I haven’t seen my reflection or been able to use an automatic door.
Good myths have multiple ramifications
You can easily solve this with a little padding around the edges.