A servant was styling the Countess' hair, when she combed the hair too tight and Elizabeth instantly struck the girl in the face, drawing blood. Elizabeth went to wash off the blood but noticed that where the blood had landed, the skin had taken on a youthful appearance like that of the young servant girl. Elizabeth asked her witches and alchemists about this, and to make her happy, they assured her that the blood of young virgin girls would indeed give her back her youthful appearance. The servant girl had her throat slit and her blood was drained into a tub, and Elizabeth began her infamous blood baths...