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Talking about sleeping in coffins reminds me of another misunderstood aspect of vampire lore: the wooden stake. In Eastern European countries where the origins of modern ideas of vampires come from, the wooden stake through the heart didn't kill the vampire. They actually drove the stake straight through the vamps ribcage and into the bottom of the coffin, to prevent them from escaping and leaving them trapped buried beneath the earth in perpetual undeath.