 The emergence of the bloodbath or blood seeker for vanity myth coincided with the vampire scares that haunted Europe in the early 18th century, reaching even into educated and scientific circles, but the strong connection between the bloodbath or blood seeker myth and the vampiric myth was not made until the 1970s.The first connections were made to promote works of fiction by linking them to the already commercially successful Dracula story.Thus, a 1970 movie based on Báthory and the bloodbath or blood seeker for vanity myth was titled "Countess Dracula".