Elizabeth Bathory

Elizabeth Bathory was the daughter of George Bathory and Baroness Ana Bathory who were one of the most powerful protestant families in Hungary and numbered warlords. Because of Elizabeth’s sadistic behavior people said that she might have been insane from childhood. Elizabeth fell pregnant and gave away her child in a foster home to be raised by peasants.  Ferenc her husband had shown her many ways to punish the peasants. There are tales of them making diabolical rites patronizing Satanists. After ten years of marriage she had three kids. Because her husband was absent so much Elizabeth started torturing young servant girls for her pleasure. She would beat them with a barbed lash and a heavy cudgel then she would drag them naked into the snow and doused with cold water till they were frozen to death. After her husband died she transferred herself to the royal court in Vienna and spent most of her time in her castle. After striking a servant girl while she was brushing her hair the blood appeared to her that reduced the signs of aging in her skin. It was said that Elizabeth then started taking baths with her virgin female servants to reduce aging. People ignored all these things until January 1611. She was never convicted of any crime but she was wailed up within her bed chamber with only small slits for ventilation and to give her food. After three years Elizabeth was found dead in her castle on April 21, 1614.