Countess Erzsébet Báthory, "The Blood Countess", was a Hungarian countess born on August 7, 1560. She died on August 21, 1614. By today’s standards, she would have been considered a cruel, heartless, sociopath. The area in Hungary she lived in was what is present day Bratislava. This area borders present day Hungary, Austria, and the Slovak Republic. She is often referred to as the "Blood Countess" for the atrocities against young women she committed in her lifetime. She and her accomplices were accused of torturing and killing a little under a hundred girls and women. These were the cases that could be proven. There were almost certainly many others. She was never tried or punished for her crimes, but she was held in the Cachtice Castle and bricked in a set of rooms until she died for four long years. Noble people didn’t get the punishment you or I would.
Elizabeth, as we call her in English-speaking countries, was a spoiled child with epilepsy. She lived in a war torn region, and would have witnessed violence all around her. As a child, she actually watched a gypsy woman be gutted. This affected her as an individual. She had a bisexual aunt and a schizophrenic uncle. She learned many of her cruel, sadistic behaviors towards women from her mean and nasty aunt. Elizabeth was said to be bisexual also. Actually, she was more partial to women, but I can’t see she was kind to the vast majority of them. She did have a financial advisor she was said to have had a sexual affair with, although she was a married woman. Her husband, Count Fernencz Nadasdy, was the one who introduced her to sexual sadism, but I am of the opinion that she would have figured it out someday on her own one way or another. Her marriage was a political one, as most were with the royalty of these times. It was arranged and happened when she was about twenty-six years old. People were terrified of Elizabeth, that they might anger her and "walked on eggshells" around the cruel, intelligent, and upstanding woman. She took much joy in this. She actually mothered four children, a horrifying thought! During her husbands absences, going off to war, she kept busy beating servant girls, and carrying on sexual affairs with as many men and woman as tickled her sick fancy.
Under Hungarian law it was illegal to try or condemn a citizen of noble birth. Parliament passed an interim law and sentenced her to be sealed alive in bricked off rooms in Castle Cachtice. She was given food and that was all. They found her lifeless body four years later when she was 54. She never apologized or shows remorse for what she had done. --- Factoidz.com
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