Bathory, Elizabeth b. 1560 d. 1614 Countess born in Transylvania during the seventeenth century. She believed that she could preserve her youth with the blood of young girls, and had them brought to her castle in Hungary and then murdered and drained of their blood. She usually bathed in a vat of her victims blood. This went on for ten years, until one of her intended victims escaped and alerted the authorities to her evil ways. Her castle was raided on December 30, 1610, and at least fifty dead bodies were exhumed. It is...[Read More] Cachtice Castle, Nove Mesto, Bratislavsky, Slovakia
b. 1560 d. 1614