If you've already watch Fright Night I'm sure that you're already familiar with Elizabeth Bathory, in the movie she is one of the most powerful vampires, but what if I tell you that Elizabeth Bathory really exists?
Today I will share with you guys the real story of Elizabeth Bathory also known as The Blood Countess.
Elizabeth Bathory was born into a noble family in Nyberator, Royal Hungary in either 1560 or 1561, I don't really know. So we're going back to the 15th century or something. In the 15th-century people are like, don't play around because, for example, Elizabeth's parents were actually blood relatives, you know maybe her parents were actually siblings, lol.
I was really thinking that the noble family in the 15th century really took the saying "keep it to the family" to the highest level it could get. So while Elizabeth is growing up, it seems that she really had it all but just like everybody else, Elizabeth had her own insecurities. While she was growing up, she would suffer from intense and frequent seizures which historians assumed was caused by epilepsy. Epilepsy was pretty common in children who were born in a family inbreeding, just to be clear everyone, I'm not saying that if you have epilepsy then you were born by a family inbreeding, NO. It's just what the video says so that's what I write, lol.
There was actually a disturbing or like a variety of disturbing and creative treatment used on those who are looking to combat seizures, so one of these treatments, creative treatments included rubbing the blood of someone who was not epileptic on the lips of the person who suffers epilepsy, you know, just like putting a lipstick, ew.
When Elizabeth was 10, she was engaged and she was set to marry Ferenc Nadasdy.
So here is when the DRAMA begins, before their marriage, when Elizabeth was 13 she gave birth to a child, yeah, at the age of 13. That child was not a Ferenc child and it was believed that the father of this child was some kind of peasant boy who did work for the royal family(is this webtoon or what?).
When her parents found out who is the father of the child, there were like, nah ah.
It's actually unclear if Elizabeth wants to keep the child or what her feeling was at all so the parents or Elizabeth's parents force her to give away the baby to a woman who was heavily trusted by there family. Now, when Elizabeth was 15 years old and her husband is 19 the two of them basically git married in one of the royal palaces, of course. Okay, so as a wedding gift, Ferenc gives her his family castle. So before both of them moved into their new castle, Ferenc ordered his workers to build a torture chamber, for Elizabeth to use on her victims( if my husband is not like Ferenc, we better get a divorce, kidding!)
Every inch of the chamber was actually built to her specifications. The husband, Ferenc actually loved working and because of that he would be gone for months and while he was away, Elizabeth would play. So both of them had been married for 25 years but Ferenc died in January of 1604, and according to them, he died because of an illness that he suffered for around 3 years, I don't know what illness it is because it wasn't actually stated. When Ferenc died, Elizabeth had no one to prevent her from torturing and killing to her heart's content. It said that the way that she tortures her victims was so brutal and her victims were almost girls and they were between 10 and 14 years old. At the beginning of her torture spree, she always tortures some young peasant girl because they were like easy to catch, you know just pay the parents some money and then boom, their daughter is yours. But as time goes by, she basically got bored and she started to torture the daughters of the higher-ups in the social status.
These girls were actually sent by their parents to Elizabeth's woman's quarters in the hopes that they would learn some quarterly etiquette. Elizabeth actually had four trusted women or collaborators working with her in torturing these girls. So she would lure these girls to her playground, her torture chamber rather. And it actually depends in her mood on what would the girls get or how would she torture them. Once she had her fun, she would drain the blood of their victims and she would drink it, yeah I know, disgusting.
She actually believed that by drinking their blood it would cure her epilepsy, but that's not all, she also believed that it would keep her young, youthful, healthy, glowing, gorgeous and because of that she obtains the nickname "Countess of Blood" and "Countess Dracula". In one of her private journals, she claimed to have taken more than 650 victims over 20 years.
In 1610, Elizabeth Bathory once again growing bored of the victims she was getting so she and her four trusted collaborators began abducting the daughters of local nobles, that's a wrong turn is you ask me. So the local nobles, they got together and just like keep chatting about their daughter's disappearance. They were like putting some pieces together, and the common denominator is, of course, Elizabeth. Now, on December 10th, 1610, Count Thurzo was really close to Elizabeth and Elizabeth's family but anyway, Count Thurzp, he decided to investigate the rumors going around about Elizabeth. Actually, at that time, he was in charge of judicial matters in Hungary. So Count Thurzo, he heads to Elizabeth castle because he needs to investigate the situation, he then hears some noises in the small room so he comes closer and peaks inside the room because the rooms were slightly open, he saw a person that seems to be Elizabeth and what also seems to be a girl tied up.
Just like that, Elizabeth along will all the people that were assisting her was arrested and were sentenced to death. Officials were actually struggling and just like wondering what would they do to Elizabeth because she was from a royal family so it's not that easy. So instead of being sentenced to death just like the others, the officials decided to put Elizabeth in her castle and they walled the room with no windows and just let Elizabeth live her life inside her castle with no windows. They basically turned Elizabeth castle into her own prison.
On the evening of August 20, 1614, Elizabeth claimed that her hands were cold, the bodyguards overseeing her house arrest sentence like "It's okay, just lie down" and at the age of 43 Elizabeth laid down in her bed and died.
And that is the story of Elizabeth Bathory: The Blood Countess.
So what do you guys think of Elizabeth?
I hope you like it and you enjoyed it! see you next time in my next article! byeeee!
Ps. the part that she drank those girl's blood was pretty, ew. lol.
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