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 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