Not being a doctor of botanoanthropovampirology, it’s hard for me to say. A cursory search suggests garlic traveled along population centers as they developed throughout history. This makes sense as vampires would find it both easier to hide and feed. I suspect Romans first acquired garlic to address the vampire problem, but it’s now a vestigial phenomenon in Italian cuisine inherited from the Romans. It would be interesting to compile a list of cities by population density and filter out the ones that commonly use a lot of garlic. The remaining cities should be the most vampire-infested, if my theory is correct. Subsequently, the minority that commonly uses garlic in those cities should proliferate along with their garlic, leading to a garlic-rich new culinary culture.
Not being a doctor of botanoanthropovampirology, it’s hard for me to say. A cursory search suggests garlic traveled along population centers as they developed throughout history. This makes sense as vampires would find it both easier to hide and feed. I suspect Romans first acquired garlic to address the vampire problem, but it’s now a vestigial phenomenon in Italian cuisine inherited from the Romans. It would be interesting to compile a list of cities by population density and filter out the ones that commonly use a lot of garlic. The remaining cities should be the most vampire-infested, if my theory is correct. Subsequently, the minority that commonly uses garlic in those cities should proliferate along with their garlic, leading to a garlic-rich new culinary culture.
History of Garlic
are you suggesting garlic migrates?
Not at all. They could be carried.
yeah that makes sense
If carried by a swallow, it could grip it by the husk.
not much call for protection from vampires around swallows, i’d think
Vampire bats.
Also, I was referencing the coconut scene from Monty Python:
SOLDIER: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
ARTHUR: Not at all. They could be carried.
SOLDIER: What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk…
SOLDIER: It’s not a question of where he grips it it’s a simple question of weight ratios. A five-ounce bird could not carry a one-pound coconut.
ARTHUR: Well, it doesn’t matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.
A slight pause. Swirling mist. Silence.
SOLDIER: Listen, in order to maintain air speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second. Right?
ARTHUR: (irritated) Please!
SOLDIER: Am I right?
ARTHUR: I’m not interested.
SECOND SOLDIER: (who has loomed up on the battlements) It could be carried by an African swallow!
FIRST SOLDIER: Oh, yes! An African swallow maybe…but not an European swallow. That’s my point.
SECOND SOLDIER: Oh, yes, I agree with that…
ARTHUR: (losing patience) Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court in Camelot?!
FIRST SOLDIER: But then of course African swallows are non-migratory.
SECOND SOLIDER: Oh, yes.
ARTHUR raises his eyes heavenward’s and nods to PATSY. They turn and go off into the mist.
FIRST SOLDIER: So they couldn’t bring a coconut back anyway.
SECOND SOLIDER: Wait a minute! Supposing two swallows carried it together?
FIRST SOLDIER: No, they’d have to have it on a line.
SECOND SOLDIER: Well simple - they just use a strand of creeper…
FIRST SOLDIER: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
SECOND SOLDIER: Why not?
i’m aware, but we’ve already established that it wasn’t swallows.
Fair enough. I still feel like vampire bats might be a threat. Also, we don’t know what reservoirs harbor vampirism. Perhaps sparrows are carriers.