why jonathan have gray hair later? why native soil boxes?

On the "Native Soil Boxes", Dracula is one of the many vampire based tales where Vampires have to rest on the soil of their home land. It's true in most of the non-modernised vampire tales. Like their aversion to hawthorns, the inability to cross running water (unless carried), or enter consecrated ground and often everything else religion related, it tends to be omitted.

Which makes sense. It always seems kinda odd that this immortal, magical creature was rendered harmless by some random sticks you happen to find on the ground.

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The original vampire legends had them returning to their graves to sleep. I guess to recharge their powers? As for the hair thing I guess it was stress related or from the "brain fever" from being drained by the lady vampires frequently.

There's an old wives' tale that your hair can turn white instantaneously (or overnight) after a particularly horrifying experience. I guess that's why they did it here.

It's not from the book. In the book, Harker looks OK after his ordeal, but he still has nightmares and basically suffers from PTSD (which Stoker describes well, years before anyone considered PTSD a thing).

EDIT: I have to eat my words a bit here...his hair does go gray, but late in the novel. He witnesses the scene when Dracula forces Mina to drink his blood, and is so horrified by it all that his hair goes gray. Not white, but gray.

Pass the ketchup, I'll get started on my words there....



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The boxes of native soil are there because Dracula has to sleep in his native soil. Just part of the mythology. The gray hair is from following the book too literally in that instance. I always thought that cliche was ridiculous.

The idea is likely that, given his traumatic experience, Jonathan's hair went grey. Either that or having his blood drained over the course of a month stressed his system to the point where his hair went grey.

And according to certain mythologies, vampires can only rest in their native soil.

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Totally explained in the movie.

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