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Dean Van Halen.
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Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 797 | June 1st, 2008 at 12:37am Okay, ever since I watched the movie 'Stay Alive', I've had this wierd... I wouldn't exactly call it 'fascination'... with Elizabeth Bathory. It's just the fact that she actually existed, and that she did what she did is oddly interesting. If you don't know who she is, she's a woman who lived in the early 1600s, and was known to have tortured and killed many young women, bathing in their blood because she thought it kept her young. Some called her The Blood Countess.
So anyhoo, who's heard of her? Post what you know about her here, pictures even.
I hope this is supposed to be under 'History'. If it's not, just let me know. |
Tragic.
Grammar Guru
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 6291 | June 1st, 2008 at 01:32am My father and I watched a TV show on her once. It was neat, and creepy. Wasn't she like a Hungarian royal woman? Although what she did was neat by my standards, it was also really creepy. o-o; I have a slight fascination with vampires, and the fact that she took it to that extreme always intrigued me. :3 |
Dean Van Halen.
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Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 797 | June 1st, 2008 at 01:37am Yeah, I think she was Hungarian.
I know what you mean, lol.
I thought what she did was really creepy,
but y'know, intriguing, too.
I'm writing a story about her, well, not specifically about her.
It's a Supernatural fan-fic, but it's about her ghost coming back.
I love Supernatural (as you can see), so I thought it would be cool to write an episode-like story about her. |
the endless.
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 2623 | June 1st, 2008 at 04:45am I think I saw something about her on the History Channel.
 The idea fascinated me. I wasn't particularly . . . I didn't really know what to think of it, except that it was cool that such strange tales really did occur. |
kafka.
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3001 | June 1st, 2008 at 10:13am She was also related to the ''supposed'' count Dracula.
I don't believe she was a vampire. I mean the Bathory family did all nice and well, they weren't murderers. Seriously this -just like the Dracula thing- started out as a cute legend but it turned into yet an other thing done just for the sake of attracting tourists. Really, no-one in Hungary-Transylvania would take this seriously. |
Xezo
Writer's Block
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 66 | June 1st, 2008 at 11:01am I've heard of her, and I find her utterly fascinating. The entire idea of a woman doing this in that era also fascinates me.
Does anyone know why she thought bathing in blood would keep her young? Because I'm really dying to know. |
Bastard Son.
Moderator
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Posts: 9047 | June 1st, 2008 at 12:24pm Probably has something to do with the blood being the force that keeps an organism alive and all? That's why they thought her a vampire - because blood allegedly gave her the vigor, energy and youth she wanted. |
Xezo
Writer's Block
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 66 | June 2nd, 2008 at 12:34am Thanks, that's what I thought it might have been, life force. This is so interesting, I think I've got a new obsession. |
HeartSearching
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Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 831 | June 2nd, 2008 at 12:58am I think she was aneimic so the blood made her feel better because it gave her more iron.
Who was that prince dude who used to put people on spikes to drain their blood and then drank it with bread? |
Nora Grey.
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Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 933 | June 2nd, 2008 at 01:18am I just looked her up on Wikipedia. It's really interesting what she did, although very....creepy. I had never heard of her before this thread. She really tortured/killed that many people? Wow. That's pretty creepy. Very interesting, though. |
Bastard Son.
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Age: 19
Gender: Female
Posts: 9047 | June 2nd, 2008 at 01:50am LivingInTheShadows:I think she was aneimic so the blood made her feel better because it gave her more iron.
Who was that prince dude who used to put people on spikes to drain their blood and then drank it with bread?
Vlad Tepes a.ka. Dracula. Look it up. He was the only one for whom I know that put people on spikes, aside from the Turkish conquerers. |
Mannequin. Queen
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Posts: 378 | June 2nd, 2008 at 07:01am I loved that movie and I'm rather obsessed with her too! |
HeartSearching
Ink Slinger
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 831 | June 4th, 2008 at 02:34am Bastard Son.:LivingInTheShadows:I think she was aneimic so the blood made her feel better because it gave her more iron.
Who was that prince dude who used to put people on spikes to drain their blood and then drank it with bread?
Vlad Tepes a.ka. Dracula. Look it up. He was the only one for whom I know that put people on spikes, aside from the Turkish conquerers.
Thank you. I will.  |
kafka.
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3001 | June 5th, 2008 at 08:57pm He didn't drink the blood.
-_-''
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Bettie Page
Grammar Guru
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 4097 | June 5th, 2008 at 09:05pm LivingInTheShadows:I think she was aneimic so the blood made her feel better because it gave her more iron.
Who was that prince dude who used to put people on spikes to drain their blood and then drank it with bread?
Vlad Dracul.
He was where the idea for the story of Dracula came from. |
HeartSearching
Ink Slinger
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 831 | June 7th, 2008 at 09:53am Die By The Sword:LivingInTheShadows:I think she was aneimic so the blood made her feel better because it gave her more iron.
Who was that prince dude who used to put people on spikes to drain their blood and then drank it with bread?
Vlad Dracul.
He was where the idea for the story of Dracula came from.
He didn't really drink it really did he? Or was it just a legend? |
baby_grl180
Writer's Block
Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 2 | June 8th, 2008 at 07:04am sueno?:She was also related to the ''supposed'' count Dracula.
I don't believe she was a vampire. I mean the Bathory family did all nice and well, they weren't murderers. Seriously this -just like the Dracula thing- started out as a cute legend but it turned into yet an other thing done just for the sake of attracting tourists. Really, no-one in Hungary-Transylvania would take this seriously.
what do you mean "supposed" ? Dracula was a real person and is considered a hero in Romania and Hungary. Elizabeth Bathory is not a legend either she was a real person and did bathe in young women's blood. Also of course she wasn't the 'I vant to drink your blood' kind of vampire, but technically she did drink the women's blood.
If you want to find out more about Elizabeth Bathory go to http://hjem.get2net.dk/the-cellar/bathory.htm |
HeartSearching
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Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 831 | June 9th, 2008 at 12:31am Didn't she take peasant children to train to be "proper" and end up just killing them for their blood? |
PenisFace
Writer's Block
Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 74 | June 10th, 2008 at 04:51am Peasant children? Oh please, she had more taste than that. She kidnapped the finest of young and elegant girls to drink from. She was the closest any person would ever get to an actual vampire. She had a real thirst for blood. Sometimes she would even bite at some of her victoms.
Of course she is legendary! She's the one of the most popular FEMALE serial killers. What she did was crazy, but it was also a big step for history. If people hear your name and know what you've done then you are legendary.
Dracula was a phoney. A complete fool. I just think people only remember him 'cause he had such a dark and forbidding name. Dracula wasn't a killer, just some poor sap getting wrapped up in accusations. |
HeartSearching
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Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 831 | June 10th, 2008 at 04:52am ^^^I just asked. Why be so rude? I watched a documentary about it and it said after a while just sent for anyone really. |
