Mediumship: The ability to channel spirits and supernatural beings.Tassomancy: The practice of divination based off the positions and symbols of tea leaves.Psychometry: The practice of divination through contact with or proximity to a certain object or person.Mediumship: The practice of divination through the communication of spirits.Intuition: The practice of divination through the use of instinctive knowledge.Clairvoyance: The practice of divination through the perception of emotions, objects, people, or physical phenomena.Cartomancy: The practice of divination through the use of tarot cards.As said by Joan Clayton, one can either learn this ability like she did or be born with it like Vanessa Ives. Divination: The act of divining future, past, and present events based off of extrasensory perception.Herbalism: The knowledge and skill in applying the magical properties of various herbs to the human body.Such a ward was able to hold back Nightcomers as powerful as Evelyn Poole from entering the threshold, though it appears to require time and/or practice to cast one properly as her daughter, Hecate, was able to enter Grandage Place despite Vanessa's wards. The Cut-Wife's primary ward to protect her home is a symbol of her personal totem painted on stone in her own blood. Apotropaic magic: The practice of creating mystic wards to block evil.Those daywalkers who descend into the darkness, usually through pacts with the Devil, become nightcomers.

Many daywalkers thus know how to speak the Verbis Diablo, but avoid using it unless there is no other choice. The more powerful daywalkers become, however, the more they must walk the line between good and evil, and must take care not to be seduced by darker powers. Although Joan Clayton implies that most daywalkers are common wood witches with knowledge of herbs and potions, she herself is proof that daywalkers can gain tremendous supernatural powers beyond brewing potions and preparing poultices. More of this, please.Daywalkers are women who are knowledgeable in the occult. We've been there and back ten times over with Dracula. Absolutely let Willem Dafoe say, 'We're the folks with the crossbows' - which, to this day, might be one of the coolest things anyone has ever said in a vampire movie. Absolutely let Sam Neill be the head of an evil, for-profit vampire corporation. Absolutely see if you can find a way to make vampires human again.

My big takeaway from 'Daybreakers' is that more filmmakers would do well to f*** with the genre. Some of those bigger moments make for big, welcome, pitch black laughs. The movie still very much works, even if it does get a little cheeseball and utterly silly at times. Setting that aside, I think the benefits greatly outweigh any shortcomings that may reveal themselves through modern scrutiny. It very much looks like a mid-budget 2009 movie something about the combination of CGI and the general studio style back then just produced a product that looked a little dated pretty quickly. The one thing I will say is that, 13 years removed, this movie does suffer a bit from the time in which it was made.

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