arithmomania

Folklore concerning vampires often depicts them with arithmomania, such as a compulsion to count seeds or grains of rice.

The Count's own arithmomania may simply be a coincidence, however, inspired by the pun on his title of nobility and his educational purpose.

Discordians with arithmomania are more likely to count in a manner similar to Count von Count.

The online game Lost Souls has a game version of arithmomania, consisting of an impulse to count objects in one's environment.

The protagonist of the film Stranger Than Fiction appears to suffer from arithmomania about certain things, such as counting strokes of his toothbrush.

Archie Comics' Forsythe (Jughead) Jones has been portrayed as a sufferer of arithmomania.

The character Adrian Monk of the TV series Monk shows arithmomania as part of his obsessive compulsive disorder, including counting poles along a footpath, and counting the number of phobias he has.

Other methods commonly practised in Europe included severing the tendons at the knees or placing poppy seeds, millet, or sand on the ground at the grave site of a presumed vampire; this was intended to keep the vampire occupied all night by counting the fallen grains, indicating an association of vampires with arithmomania.