-Caveat Lector-
An excerpt from:
The World's Wickedest Women
Margaret Nichols
Octopus Books Limited�1984
59 Grosvenor Street,
London W1
Berkely Books, New York
ISBN 0-425-10983-6
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Elizabeth Bathory
The Countess Elizabeth Bathory who lived in the Carpathian mountains in the
16th century was one of the original vampires who inspired Bram Stoker's
legend of Dracula.
She was Hungarian by birth. Records give her entry into the world as 1561. As
a girl she was beautiful with long hair and an exquisite complexion. She was
married off to an aristocratic soldier when she was fifteen and became
Mistress of the Castle of Csejthe in the Carpathians.
Life in the dark, gloomy Csejthe Castle, while her husband was away on his
various military campaigns, became very boring indeed. She was determined to
liven things up.
First she gathered round her a sinister band of witches, sorcerers and
alchemists who taught her the black arts. Then, armed with her special
flesh-tearing silver pincers, a manual of tortures her husband had used when
fighting the Turks and a taste for flagellation learned from her aunt, she
set out to indulge herself and while away the lonely hours.
When her husband died in 1604 she had reached the difficult age of 43. She
longed for a new lover to replace him but her reflection in the mirror showed
her that time and indulgence had not improved her looks. One day she slapped
the face of a servant girl and drew blood with her nails. She was convinced
that that part of her body where the girl's blood had dripped was much
fresher and younger than before. It only needed the alchemists to add their
opinion and she was convinced that drinking and bathing in the blood of young
virgins would preserve her beauty forever.
So, at the dead of night, the Countess and her cronies would tear about the
countryside hunting for girls. They would be taken back to the castle, hung
in chains and their blood used for the countess' bath, the finest saved for
her to drink.
The terrible woman carried on like this for five years until she began to
realize the blood of peasant girls had not been terribly effective. In 1609
she turned to the daughters of her own class. Offering to take in 25 girls at
a time to teach them social graces, she soon had a flourishing academy.
Helped as usual by her peasant procuress, Dorotta Szentes, known as Dorka,
she treated the "pupils" with the same inhuman cruelty as she had treated the
others. But this time she became too careless. The bodies of four girls were
thrown over the castle walls. Before she realized her mistake villagers
collected them and took them away to be identified. Her secret was out.
News of her reign of terror finally reached the ears of the Hungarian
Emperor, Matthias II. He ordered that the Countess be brought to trial. But
as an aristocrat she could not be arrested, so Parliament passed a new Act so
that she would not be able to slip through their hands. At her hearing in
1610 it was said she had murdered 600 girls.
Dorka and her witches were burnt at the stake. The Countess escaped execution
because of her noble birth. But she was condemned to a living death�walled up
in a tiny room of her castle and kept alive by scraps of food pushed through
the bars. She died four years later without a word of remorse.
pps. 152-154
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