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In a word, No. This device, popularized by Buffy the Vampire Slayer, was actually a television convenience devised by Joss Whedon to evade the need to justify a stack of corpses littering the graveyards. Staking actually starts an incendiary process, likely to end in a pile of fine white ash, with some boney remnants.
