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Carmilla Summary. The slayer pulls out a wooden stake and drives it into the heart, thus ending Carmilla’s lusty reign of lesbian terror and freeing Laura from her nightmares and the kiss of the vampire forever.

Millarca turns out to be an anagram of Carmilla and the relationship between the two strange women turns out to extend beyond that coincidence. Indeed, Carmilla is the very same vampire as Millarca and both are merely slightly varied incarnations of Countess Karnstein who reportedly died many years before.

Laura wishes Carmilla would tell her more about where she came from, but Carmilla firmly but kindly rebuffs her questioning. As for religion, Laura learns Carmilla was baptized but she never takes prayers with them, and one day expresses disdain for a retinue of peasants singing a hymn.

As for religion, Laura learns Carmilla was baptized but she never takes prayers with them, and one day expresses disdain for a retinue of peasants singing a hymn. She does seem superstitious though, purchasing a charm from a traveling hunchback against the “oupire” (vampire) said to be in the region and urging Laura to do so as well.