Holly items were typically any religious items such as Holy water, the Bible or crosses. These items were capable of repelling, severely burning or even killing Demons and Vampires.

When the Archangel Samael grew jealous of God’s perceived favoritism over the Human race, he rebelled, was cast out of Heaven and became Lucifer, ruler of Hell. Out of revenge, Lucifer corrupted some human turned them into Demons, his own personal army. Due to their origins, everything connected to Lucifer’s life as Samael became weapons against himself and his creations.

Vampires were mostly demons-human Hybrids and thus were also affected by Holy Items. One account of Vampire creation futher explains why they are so effective. Judas Iscariot, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Chris. He betrayed Jesus for a bribe of thirty pieces of silver. When Judas saw Jesus dying on the cross, he was horrified by what he had done and tried to hang himself but the rope snapped and as punishment he was cursed to live forever, as the world’s first Vampire. Renaming himself, Dracula, he soon discovered that all he had come to loathe, silver, crosses, holy water, could now harm him.