Wood stakes
Stakes were used in many ways to prevent and imprison vampires. In Eastern Serbia, small pegs made out of hawthorn wood are driven into the grave next to the cross, preventing the corpse from becoming a vampire. Stakes and other sharpened objects are also driven into the body.
The wounds preventing vampirism by making it impossible for the Devil to ‘inflate’ the body so it can rise. Stakes can be simply driven over a corpse’s grave, so if it becomes a vampire and tries to rise, it will impale itself.
