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* Trapped by a vampire? Throw some rice/beads/knotted bits of string at it! They ''have'' [[Weaksauce Weakness|to stop and count it]]. [[Sesame Street|Ah ah ah!]]

** Beautifully done in [[The Rashomon]] episode of ''[[The X-Files]]''.

*** Of course, it's inverted right back when, under the stress of having their plan spontaneously collapse when {{spoiler|Granny Weatherwax ''"borrows" their blood''}}, the Magpyr's conditioning starts to fail. Since the Magpyr's conditioning involved knowing the root cause of every traditional weakness and countering that, the resulting collapse added a form of hypochondria of sorts. So, for example, they're no longer immune to religious symbols... and they've memorized so many that they see religious symbols everywhere.

** ''[[Charby the Vampirate]]'' subverts it in one early strip. He is compelled to count a handful of beans his intended victim throws at him, but does it by determining the average weight of a bean, weighing the pile, and extrapolating how many there are from that.

 

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