Countess Dracula Countess Dracula Countess Dracula is a 1971 British Hammer horror film based on the legends surrounding the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory. The film was produced by Alexander Paal and directed by Peter Sasdy, both Hungarian émigrés working in England. The original music score was composed by Harry Robertson. "Countess Dracula" was also released on a double bill with "Vampire Circus". In 17th-century Hungary, recently widowed Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy discovers that her youthful appearance and libido can be temporarily restored if she bathes in the blood of young women. She enlists her steward and lover Captain Dobi and her maid Julie
Women in Shinto forbidden from participation in Yamakasa, parades in which Shinto shrines are carried through a town, until 2001. Women's menstrual blood is a taboo in Shinto, thought to be influenced by the popularity of the Buddhist . This doctrine preached that women were condemned to a blood pond hell for the sin of pollution through menstrual blood; only the prayer could spare them. Though Buddhist in origin, Shinto facilities emulated this practice in their teaching, encourage women, and men who had contact with menstrual women, to avoid shrines. In Shinto, female priests are allowed, but remain rare, and take on the