first heard of Elizabeth Bathory recently, reading the news that they were making a movie of his life . Not knowing who was sought information, and my morbid curiosity paid off: after the name was a really interesting story (and dark). I wanted to share with you everything they learned, but there are numerous blogs (including Wikipedia ) who wrote brilliantly about it, so I did copy & paste one of them ("Days of Future Past ). I've only recently synthesized a text and I added some extras taken from other sources, so I urge you to visit the fantastic blog of the author.
Elizabeth Bathory was born in 1560 in a prestigious Transylvanian family. A branch of his family was related to the king of Poland and the highest aristocracy of Hungary, while in the other branch abounded alchemists, sorcerers, and worshipers of Satan. Married for eleven years with the Count Ferencz Nadasdy (which only twice her age), it is said that the thirteen had an illegitimate son with a servant, who was castrated and thrown to the dogs.
The home of marriage was Csejthe Castle in the Carpathians. Count preferred the heat of battle to life palace and went into combat, earning the title of Black Hero of Hungary. Left alone, the countess gave vent to his two great passions: the cuckolding her husband with young men and women and carrying out occult experiments. At this time Elizabeth was already a woman of singular beauty, while possessing a good deal of esoteric knowledge.
At the continued absence of the count, he found a steady lover, who is described as very pale and thin, sharp teeth, which earned him the nickname nice "vampire." This relationship ended when her husband returned home. Elizabeth had to be limited to "flirt" with women, but adding to their practices sadism.
is said that was her husband who initiated him into the "art" torture, a means to service discipline, so that when she began to take the castle with the government tested it by inserting needles under the fingernails of the ladies.
In 1600, Count Ferencz died, some say that in battle and others who poisoned or the victim of a spell. Elizabeth was forty years old and became obsessed with aging and loss of beauty. Then a casualty came to lead the final descent into the abyss of Elizabeth Bathory.
They say that one of the girls who was combing the Countess yanked hair. The countess, exercising their right to love, hit him a blow that drew blood to girl so that some blood spattered the hand of Elizabeth. The Countess thought he saw part of her skin bathed in the blood of the girl had recovered the smoothness of his youth, so without thinking twice slit her throat and ordered her to fill with blood, a pitcher for bathing. The experience must be satisfactory, and he repeated the operation with the blood of another girl and then another and another. Bathory thought he had discovered the secret of eternal youth: be periodic bloodshed.
For ten years, claims the Countess aides kidnapped more than six hundred young farmers, to which extracted blood to rejuvenate its loves. Sometimes the hanging in an iron cage and pierced the body so that the lady was showered with blood. When the victim in question seemed healthy kept her alive in the basement for years to make them continuous supply of blood to drink. After bathing in the blood ordered his servants to lamiesen skin. If the girls did not disgust the reward, but if they showed any grimace of disgust, the tortured to death.
The Bathory and his followers were presented with a problem: what to do with the bodies. At first they were buried at night outside the castle, later were herded into basements, eventually they were accumulating so many who simply leave lying everywhere. On the other hand, rejuvenating treatment followed by the Countess did not give the expected results so convinced that the blood rather vulgar village should use the youth of noble birth. That was his undoing: remove the blood to the lower classes is allowed, but the aristocrats were untouchable. Thus, the crimes were finally reported, King Mathias of Hungary ordered to storm the castle.
Soldiers found in the living room floor a pale young man was bleeding. He had the appearance of having been tortured with sticks and burns. Their research came to discover fifty bodies buried near the castle.
In the basement they found many victims still alive, horribly tortured and short enough to witness who had served as a source of drinking for the Countess Bathory. They saw that the basement was an artifact of iron (cage) in human form inside was full of thorns. That got the girls whose spikes passing through their bodies, raised platform and the countess was put under to take a shower with the blood of women.
had built a castle in the pipeline for blood to other of his victims to travel through the pipes to fill the tub Elizabeth (Erzsébeth) Bathory. Totura Another method he used was to get one of the girls, naked, into the yard in winter and Oden his servants to the launch buckets of water until the frozen memory.
release victims and continued his search through the rooms, finding one of them to the Countess with some witches engaging in a ritual. Could be detailed knowledge of the facts, not only the corpses piled up everywhere, but because there had been thoroughly Bathory their activities in a journal. All his accomplices were executed and Elizabeth Bathory (the nobility was untouchable), sentenced to be walled in a room of his own castle.
Four years later he died without having uttered during that time in prison a word. One day he decided not to eat more, and 54 years died of starvation in 1614.
Portrait of Countess
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