Underworld (film series) the story, is described has having a habit similar to real-life historical Sanguinarian figure, Elizabeth Báthory the "Blood Countess", of often indulging in baths of blood, believing it to enhance her beauty (""The aroma of so much fresh blood was intoxicating. Sonja tried to imagine what it would be like to bathe in such a tub; her skin tingled beneath her gown. It was said that Amelia herself sometimes indulged in such luxurious ablutions in order to enhance her beauty"", "Blood Enemy" novelization, chapter 8). Erika is portrayed by Sophia Myles. She is a character in the "Underworld" film series
Women in Daoism because the alchemical process inverts the course of natural procedures. This luminous spirit leaves and re-enters the body, and then is further sublimated in the third stage to eventually merge back completely into cosmic emptiness (Despeux 2000: 406). Only the first stage differentiates practices between men and women. In "neidan" terminology, semen is called "baihu" (白虎, White Tiger) and menstrual blood is "chilong" (赤龍, Red Dragon). Instead of refining seminal essence and transforming it into energy, women refine their menstrual blood by progressively diminishing their flow and eventually stopping it altogether. This is known as "duan chilong" (斷赤龍, "cutting off