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| '''Elizabeth Bathory''' ''(Erzsébet Báthory)'' (], ] - ], ]) was a ] countess, a niece of King ] of Poland. She was a ], reputed to have been responsible for the torture and murder of over six hundred peasant women in her castle -- women whose blood she is said to have bathed in. When her crimes were discovered in 1610, she was tried and imprisoned in solitary confinement, where she died. Her |
'''Elizabeth Bathory''' ''(Erzsébet Báthory)'' (], ] - ], ]) was a ] countess, a niece of King ] of Poland. She was a ], reputed to have been responsible for the torture and murder of over six hundred peasant women in her castle -- women whose blood she is said to have bathed in. When her crimes were discovered in 1610, she was tried and imprisoned in solitary confinement, where she died. Her collaborators were executed, although, ''I'' think maybe her husband was spared, being part of the nobility and all. | ||
| She is thought to have been the origin of numerous ] myths, the ] story, and the trope of the sexually sadistic vampiress in particular. | She is thought to have been the origin of numerous ] myths, the ] story, and the trope of the sexually sadistic vampiress in particular. | ||
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Elizabeth Bathory (Erzsébet Báthory) (August 7, 1560 - August 21, 1614) was a Transylvanian countess, a niece of King Stephen Bathory of Poland. She was a serial killer, reputed to have been responsible for the torture and murder of over six hundred peasant women in her castle -- women whose blood she is said to have bathed in. When her crimes were discovered in 1610, she was tried and imprisoned in solitary confinement, where she died. Her collaborators were executed, although, I think maybe her husband was spared, being part of the nobility and all.
She is thought to have been the origin of numerous vampire myths, the Dracula story, and the trope of the sexually sadistic vampiress in particular.
References
- McNally, Raymond T.: Dracula was a woman: in search of the blood countess of Transylvania. New York: McGraw Hill, 1983.