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Author: NightNymph

Jul 2nd 2012 at 12:00:39 PM

^ I'm not sure if that is repelling so much as wounding?

Is this trope going to include both? Because in the {{Supernatural}}-verse, there is both. For example, in that verse, salt does repell spirits, but it also causes them to vanish temporarirly if they are hit with it (and so therefor also hurts them). It is similar with iron which as you mentioned both repells and hurts spirits (as well as demons).

Supernatural also has a list of things too long to mention individually which repell various monsters, ghosts, demons, and angels. These include symbols of various religions and peoples (such as pentagrams, the Anasasi symbols which keep away a Wendigo, and the various Enochian "angel-proofing" symbols), various herbs (such as the devil's shoestring herb which repells hell hounds), various concoctions (such as "goofer dust" which also repels hellhounds), natural "by products" (Cat's eye shells are mentioned as spirit repellents), and different types of metals and mineral compounds (like the aforementioned iron and salt).