Stabbing a vampire through the heart with a stake was one of the only ways to kill a vampire so they would naturally be afraid of them.
No that's werewolves, in most stories vampires hate garlic and can be killed with a wooden stake.
WELL YOU WOULD BE SCARED TOO IF SOMEONE CAME UP BEHIND YOU WITH A GREAT BIG WOODEN STAKE!!!
vampires don't exist
According to folklore, you can kill a vampire by sticking a wooden stake in its heart.
A wooden stake (to puncture through the heart), vervain, sun. Lol
vampire's weakness in obviously sunlight or being stabbeed in the heart with a wooden stake everybody knows that.
If your talking about a wooden stake, a knife or sword or something, then the answer is to, well, kill the vampires.
They cannot be reborn. They live forever, that's the price they have to pay. Unless they get stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake.
Considering vampires are just a work of fiction, how they are destroyed depends on the author writing the story. Some of the more common ways to kill a vampire are a wooden stake to the heart, sunlight, or decapitation.
Scared of vampires.
A tent-peg. A spike. A stake.
The importance of the 'wooden stake' in the business of killing vampires has been greatly over-emphasized. Vampires are the un-dead which means that they can't be killed. What you really mean to say is 'destroy a vampire'. Vampires can take an incredible amount of damage and still continue to be functional. There have been reports of vampires being cut up into small pieces and still being able to reassemble themselves and continue in their vampire ways. (This has been credited only to those individuals who happen to be high level sorcerers as well as being vampires. Usually this amount of damage would be 'fatal' to a vampire.) What the wooden stake is for is to pin the vampire down in its coffin so it can't roam around anymore. A fate worse than just dying. Having a wooden stake through its heart wouldn't stop a vampire. To destroy a vampire, burn the body completely.