Dracula's Powers and Limitations

His powers include a wide range of abilities, some of which are beyond the powers of the other undead in the novel:

• he can command any animal and control the weather;
• he can become mist or elemental dust;
• he has superhuman strength and speed;
• his gaze is hypnotic;
• he can transform himself into a bat or a wolf.

He has serious limitations, as well:

• he is relatively powerless between sunrise and sunset;
• he cannot enter a home unless invited (although his power to hypnotize helps him to bypass this limitation);
• he cannot advance when faced by a cross, garlic, or a piece of communion wafer;
• he can only cross running water when it is at its lowest;
• he must sleep in soil made sacred by the burial of dead from his own family.

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