Blood Báthory Part 1

Astonishing Legends vor 7 Jahren

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Countess Elizabeth Báthory was a Hungarian noblewoman and one of
the most wealthy and powerful aristocrats in eastern Europe
during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Together
with her husband Ferenc Nádasdy, a military hero known as the
Black Knight of Hungary, Báthory held numerous estates, lands,
and villages. She also currently holds the Guinness World
Record for being the most prolific female serial killer and most
prolific murderer of the western world. Báthory had been
accused in the testimonies of over 300 witnesses and survivors of
some of the most horrific tortures and murders imaginable before
she was arrested, even by medieval standards. Her victims
were her maidservants and lesser noble protégés, all girls, with
some as young as ten years old. Years after her death, a
legend had formed that Báthory had even routinely bathed in and
possibly drank the blood of her virginal victims, believing that
the pureblood had retained her beauty. Some claim that
Báthory's story became the partial inspiration for Bram Stoker's
Dracula, along with her more famous sanguinary neighbor, Vlad the
Impaler. But were any of the accusations against Báthory
true? Was she merely a victim herself of a political and
gender-biased conspiracy aimed at confiscating her riches and
properties? As we'll learn once again, the truth behind our
legends is often shrouded in a fog of conjecture misting through
a forest of unknowns. Join us tonight as we examine the
case of Elizabeth Báthory who, regardless of her actual guilt or
innocence, will be forever known as, "The Blood Countess."

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