Buffy Question

[gayalondiel_bak]

In Buffx 1.02 "The Harvest" when Buffy goes to get her supplies (and gets grounded) she has a case full of vampire fighting stuff like crosses and holy water, stakes, and a big jar of communion wafers with no indication of whether they had been consecrated.

In Dracula, one of Van Helsing's key tools is using the Host to keep vampires from moving from place to place and of course burning Mina on the head. I was just wondering, is that a nice nod to Van Helsing or do we ever actually see Buffy use the Host against any vampires?

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Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Presumably they have a friendly priest

I don't know -- they never mention it, and in fact, for all the churches, they almost never show religion at all. I assumed either the "holy water" they had was "water from a particularly holy spring, bought off eBay", a relic more than usual holy water. Or that someone just walked into a church and asked or just took some from the fount -- there's no particular restrictions, are there?

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

Maybe not - I always imagined that an organisation as old and powerful as the Watchers' Council would have networked with the Church or Churches to ensure a ready supply. Going back to the Dracula origin of a lot of popular legend, I have always assumed holy water is holy water.