Dracula In 1983, McNally additionally suggested that Stoker was influenced by the history of Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who allegedly tortured and killed between 36 and 700 young women. It was later a commonly believed rumor that she committed these crimes to bathe in their blood, believing that this preserved her youth. Báthory's castle was also located in the Carpathian Mountains, just as Dracula's, albeit in a different region. In her book "The Essential Dracula", Clare Haword-Maden suggested that the castle of Count Dracula was inspired by Slains Castle, at which Bram Stoker was a guest of the 19th Earl of
Etiquette in Japan indoors and some outdoors, some communal and some private. Larger "onsen" will have separate pools for men and women, and visitors normally bathe nude. Many sentō and onsen ban customers with tattoos, which are traditionally taboo, citing concerns over yakuza activity. , is probably the feature of Japanese etiquette that is best known outside Japan. (The honorific "o" or お cannot be omitted from this word.) Bowing is extremely important: although children normally begin learning how to bow at a very young age, companies commonly train their employees precisely how they are to bow. Basic bows are performed by bending