This story takes place in the old Hungarian Empire, which is now part of Slovakia.
Elizabeth Bathory (the countess of blood) was an insatiable, sadistic, real life vampire. She was a Hungarian blueblood (royalty) who tortured and murdered hundreds of virgins then bathed in their gore (blood + maybe some bits). She believed that ghoulish baths in the thick, warm liquid drained from tortured and maimed bodies of servants and local village girls would keep her young and beautiful forever. She satisfied her loathsome sexual and blood cravings by feeding on innocent young virgin women, which she lured, to her home, Castle Cachtice.
Most of the girls vanished from the castle only to be found dead, their bodies showing marks of sadistic tortures and drained of blood until they were ash-white husks. The countess loved to order her quavering victims stripped. Then she reveled in sticking pins under their fingernails and toenails, and piercing other sensitive areas where pain would be most intense. Often she became so excited during the tortures that she would leap snarling at her agonizing victims and rip out ragged chunks of bloody flesh from their bodies with her teeth.
Because of her reputation of cruelty, and the status she held no one dared to accuse her of her brutal crimes. Old age had begun to catch up with the countess and she had virtually stripped the countryside of young women, so she began preying on younger, and younger girls. Desperate parents started to hide their female children away, or to dress them in boys clothing. The shortages of young wemon lead the countess to focus her attentions on some young noblewomen. With that she had stepped over the line.
She was arrested, and put to trial, but since she was a noblewomen- even given the enormity of her crimes the authorities were prevented from ordering any punishment that would involve shedding her own blood. Elizabeth was ordered forever to be isolated from the world. Masons (stone workers) bricked her up in a vampire-like tomb with no windows or doors, no light, and only a tiny hole in the bricks through which food was passed in and slops (scraps) where handed out. There in that awful cramped ossuary (Tomb) the cruel women who had wanted to remain young and beautiful forever slowly withered in the solitary blackness. In 1614, three years after she was walled up at Castle Cachitice, her body finally disintegrated totally, and she died alone and unmourned. She was 54. And to this day young virgins who pass by the castle feel pinpricks under their toe and fingernails.
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