The infamous lady who took baths in blood and had " Vampiric" behavior? The vampire psycho lady?
You have? Good. I think you have. She is popular. Like gossip girl popular. Read this article to reconfirm your knowledge and tell me where did I go wrong. I can be dumb sometimes( not really, shushhh... I have a small attention span. Lmao).
You don't know who Blood countess is? Read on to find out! Might make you throw up.. So that must be fun.
Blood countess or Elizabeth Bathory was born on the 7th August 1560,in Nyírbátor, Hungary. She was born into the Bathory Bloodline, which was an incredibly powerful noble family of
Hungary.
Early life of Elizabeth Bathory was not exactly normal. Then again it was the 1500s -1600s, what can we except? Since Elizabeth was born into wealth and influence, she was given education, respect and was rich, everything girls in those (who weren't born into royalty) didn't have.
She was said to suffer for seizures and epilepsy from a very young age. For this reason she apparently used to smell and drink human blood. Yep! You read that right. Yummm...right? Now, it the 1500s, the medical or healthcare system was not at all developed. So, the doctors thought drinking human blood might cure epilepsy. 🤷♀️🤷♀️.
Even though the aesthetic of 1500s was pretty thank god I wasn't born in that era. God knows what the fuck they will do to you if you suffered from any disease.
Elizabeth was engaged at the age of 11,to another very influential family of Hungary, Nasady.
Now something scandalous (in terms of 1500-1600s. Elizabeth Bathory is said to have given birth to a baby out of wedlock with a lower class lover at the age of 13. I mean it will still be quite scandalous right? Like sex at 12-13?!
It is said that her lover was castrated and then fed to the dogs. Talk about gruesome violence. Her baby daughter was given away to a servant who was paid handsomely to run away with the baby and never to give away this information.
Elizabeth was married of to Count Ference Nasady two years later when she was 15 years old and her fiance was 19.
Her husband gifted her a castle for her wedding. Now it is said her husband made a "torture" Chamber in the castle just for Elizabeth so that she can implement her sadistic nature onto others. People get yourself a husband like that, who understands your needs.Every need, even if it is killing and torturing young women. It is true that the castle had a torture chamber but no evidence is found whether her husband had anything to do with it.
It is also interesting to note that Elizabeth didn't take up her husband's surname. Since Elizabeth was on a higher social status than her husband, she didn't take her husband's name but his husband took Bathory into his name. Girl power!! Yaay!
Her husband was a very ambitious soldier and he used to away for most times. So, Elizabeth apparent had a series of lovers and bore her husband four children. I wonder if those lovers were castrated and fed to dogs...
Also, why did the count accept this kids as his own? If he did, why the hell did he send away Elizabeth's first born?
The torture of Bathory started around 1560. She started killing young peasant girls who used to work for her. She also abducted daughters of those servants who used to work for her. Maybe she chose girls at her castle so that her husband couldn't cheat on her, since most men at that were douchebags. Also not I said "most men" Not "all men".
She had around four people who were really loyal to her. They used to help Elizabeth abduct those young peasant girls.
She used to to lock them up for days in her torture chamber without food or water. She used to beat them with leather floggers and stinging needles and of course after she stripped them naked. She used to freeze them for days. Sometimes she used to burn them and immediately used to put them into an ice bath. She used to cut off parts of there bodies and then feed it to the victim herself. She used to multilate the girls vagina and breasts making the form of torture of a sexual nature. She used to tie them up on a table and cover them in honey and left them like that. Ants used to crawl up all over there bodies along with other insects and bees. This resulted into the mutilation of the bodies. She is said to bathe and drink those girls' blood.
On January 4,1604 , Elizabeth's husband died after years of disability. After that, Elizabeth's torture had no bounds.
She soon got bored of the lower caste peasants girls and upgraded to the noble caste girls who used to go her gynaecium to learn etiquette.
Around 1604 rumours about Elizabeth Bathory was spreads. Since daughters from noble families were missing, an investigation was launched.
More and more witnesses were found. All of them sweared that Elizabeth Bathory was torturing and killing all those girls.
In 1610, enough evidence was found and Elizabeth Bathory was arrested for the murder of 650+ girls.
Since she was from a noble family, executing her or punishing her was off the table.
It was later decided that she would be imprisoned in her own castle for the rest of her life. Now some sources say that she was imprisoned in a bricked room while others say she had free movement inside her palace. Nobody knows for sure.
On the evening of 20th August, 1640 Elizabeth complained of cold hands and her guards suggested her to lie down. She was found the next morning. She was 54 at the time of her death.
So that my friends was the tale of Countess Elizabeth Bathory aka the blood countess.
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