I wouldn't doubt it. The crucifixes, I get. Being unholy abominations and all that. The garlic, I don't. I'm sure Dracula mentioned it somewhere... Ah, yes. Apparently garlic is a mosquito repellent, so since vampires drink blood like mosquitos, garlic would thus also repel vampires. After writing mosquito so many times, I now itch all over. If Jaspin really thinks that Elizabeth would believe that for a second, he is a dumb, dumb man. If anything, she'd be angry that he'd insult her intelligence like that.