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Elizabeth Báthory
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Elizabeth Báthory, whose name in
Hungarian is Erzsébet Báthory, was born in Hungary in 1560. She is known as the
bloody countess and is still
considered to be nowadays the biggest serial killer of the history of
Slovakia and Hungary. Her parents were coming from two branches of the Báthory,
a few ancestors who came to Hungary from Scandinavia to half of the XIth
century. The brother of Elizabeth's mother was the Polish King Stephen Báthory.
It is said that one of her uncles was an admirer of Satan and that other
relatives were practising the black magic. Her infancy passed in the Castle of
Ecsed. At the age of 11 they forced her to be promised by a warlike nobleman
so-called Francis Nádasdy, with whom she moved to the Castle of Sárvár. In 1575
she married Nádasdy in Vranov. Nádasdy, brave and cruel warrior known as "The
black hero", became in 1578 the commander in chief of the Hungarian troops in
the war against the Turks. The wedding gift that Nádasdy did to Elizabeth was
the Castle of Cachtice (placed in Carpathians, at present the west of Slovakia
in the outskirts of Trencin and on part of that time of the Kingdom of Hungary),
the country-house and 17 adjacent peoples. The castle was surrounded by a
village of peasants and farmers. In 1602, Nádasdy bought definitively the Castle
of Cachtice to the emperor Rudolf II. She had five sons, two of which died at early
age.
As her husband was waging the war against the
Turks, Elizabeth Báthory turned into the lady of the castle. Alone in the
castle, Báthory became a lover of a peasant of strange aspect. When her husband
returned she left her lover but she started supporting lesbian relations with two
of her maidens. Also it is said that she had relations with her aunt Karla Báthory,
lesbian, who initiated her in the bacchanals between women. Her husband died in 1602
or 1604 murdered in Bucharest by a prostitute to whom he owed money. By that time
Elizabeth was already capable of speaking and of writing in four
languages.
Is not known when she started killing young
girls, but it is known by certainty that she was doing it from 1585 until 1610.
Her husband and her relatives knew her sadistic inclinations but they did not
intervene. With the time Báthory was increasing the brutality of her tortures
and crimes. The people who was living near the castle hated so much that she
needed escort. But in addition to Cachtice also she was torturing
girls and young people in her properties of Sárvár and Keresztúr. Her
victims were initially rural but later also she murdered the noblemen's daughters who
were sent to her castles to be educated in the social customs of the epoch. When
in the surroundings it was suspected what she was doing, she began to send her
accomplices to other regions so that girls were providing her. The rumors spread
over the whole Kingdom of Hungary and Báthory began to kidnap young people to
continue with her inclinations. Then there took place the intervention of the
parson of Cachtice and even of the monks of Vienna, who complained about the
constant crying that were heard in the Castle of Cachtice. The emperor Matías II
assigned George Thurzo, cousin of Elizabeth and openly of Hungary, so that it
was investigating the facts. Thurzo and his men invaded Cachtice in the morning
of December 29, 1610 and they surprised Elizabeth in the country-house
torturing several young girlsl. Between her finds they found a device of torture consisting
of a cage of spikes that was closing and threading her victims who were bled
slowly. Báthory, together with her four collaborators, was accused of tortures
and murder in mass. Báthory was confined in a room of her castle with only a
groove for which some meal and water were happening to her. She died there in
1614.
Her
accomplices were executed in the bonfire. Several legends exist on her, as her
love for bathing in the blood of her victims and also for drinking it
with the target to stay eternally young. It is considered that she could have been the
origin of the vampiric myths, as the legend of Dracula.
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