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Aiden Avenged
Writer's Block
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 10 | July 24th, 2008 at 03:09am There really wasn't much to her...she bathed in blood that's pretty much it. I think she was caught and arrested or killed or something. I have a book that has a passage about her and a picture of her with a tub of blood. But that's about it. |
Scarecrow Angel
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Posts: 351 | July 24th, 2008 at 03:13am Ann-DAngst:There really wasn't much to her...she bathed in blood that's pretty much it. I think she was caught and arrested or killed or something. I have a book that has a passage about her and a picture of her with a tub of blood. But that's about it.
Well, I wouldn't say she was 'just' bathing in blood, as everybody naturally does. 
The blood had to come from somewhere, and she was a pretty notorious murderer of handmaidens. I suppose that notion of conspiring to kill helpless girls contributes to the horror.
Eventually she ran out of proper handmaidens and started taking peasant girls into the house, while in the end days, when she was becoming suspected, she would kill almost at random. And you have to admit that kind of a desperate edge is pretty frightening, especially when your motivation is mostly cosmetic!
alfred e. neuman:People in those days were very superstitious and uneducated.
They thought draining blood would make people better.
The lack of education probably strongly influenced her actions. If she was here today she'd probably just be getting a shitload of botox.
...And isn't that sometimes just as horrific?  |
oreo cookie.
Ink Slinger
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 873 | July 24th, 2008 at 10:16am Scarecrow Angel:alfred e. neuman:People in those days were very superstitious and uneducated.
They thought draining blood would make people better.
The lack of education probably strongly influenced her actions. If she was here today she'd probably just be getting a shitload of botox.
...And isn't that sometimes just as horrific?
The things some people will do to look younger and 'prettier...'
I guess that the invention of botox is somehow good though, considering it keeps away woman who will bathe in her maidens' blood for youth. 
Elizabeth certainly used her status in society to look beautiful, as such. Although, it was coming right back at her - the higher in status she became, the more prettier she was probably expected to be; the more servants she killed, the more girls she needed.
Sad, sad woman. |
Aiden Avenged
Writer's Block
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 10 | July 27th, 2008 at 05:11pm She wasy taken to court and convicted for her crimes. She was sentenced to house arrest for life and died a few years later. |
Blue Demon
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Posts: 1368 | July 28th, 2008 at 07:39am ^ They couldn't have her put to death because of her relatives being so far up the ladder of power. But her servents who helped her were commited to death, first the endured torture, fingers being broken and then they were burned at the stake. |
paperwings.
Student Shakespeare
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 7146 | August 1st, 2008 at 05:19am I saw a show about her once, and then watched "Stay Alive"
......creeped me the fuck out.
but it was... fascinating, you know?
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Dean Van Halen.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 702 | August 2nd, 2008 at 04:05am ^Yeah, I agree x] |
Stephanie
Writer's Block
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 94 | August 11th, 2008 at 06:23am ANyone heard of that one sort of new, on the line mental disease?...Renfield syndrome...it applies to people who have vampiric tendancies...These people tend to kill people for blood...Blood makes them feel powerful or supernatural or younger...I think I read somewhere that they said that our Miss Bathory had Renfield syndrome...
Just a thought... |
desperate endeavor.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 572 | August 11th, 2008 at 07:11pm ^It's definitely possible, but who can say? No one around today could have met her so... |
dallas winston.
Amateur Author
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Gender: Female
Posts: 239 | August 12th, 2008 at 04:45am dark.:He didn't drink the blood.
-_-''
Haha. I see I'm not the only one that frowns at Romanian culture being misinterpreted...
Anyway, about Elizabeth Bathory. I never actually realised that the myths and tales were that famous, I've never seen anything on her other then Stay Alive. (which was an interesting movie, I must say) And of course my friend's little Hungarian folklore tidbits he gives me.
The stories I've heard from my friend are very interesting, in a morbid kind of way. Of course, the question is are they all true?
Just like the story of Vlad Tepes, I've heard many renditions on the tales, ones where he killed people for no reason, ones where he killed them because they wouldn't take their hats off to him so he glued them to their heads, one where he drank their blood and ones where he didn't.
The thing with folklore is it's just that, folklore, and none of us really know exactly what she did, and how much of the story is true.
The stories of Elizabeth Bathory and others similar to her are very fascinating, of course, but they're a bit like Wikipedia, people can change them at will. |
Shirley Manson
Writer's Block
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 18 | October 4th, 2008 at 06:09am PenisFace: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.
Many of her victims were local peasant girls, actually. |
Freddie Mercury.
Grammar Guru
Age: 68
Gender: Male
Posts: 5411 | October 4th, 2008 at 06:58am PenisFace: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.
As far as I read, she never kidnapped anyone. And she never drank their blood, either, just bathed in it.
And usually they were just peasant girls. |
above the influence
Student Shakespeare
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Posts: 7402 | October 22nd, 2008 at 10:21am
I find her really interesting, not creepy at all...
Oh yeah, I'm awkward.
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vampirEwitcH13
Amateur Author
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 190 | October 24th, 2008 at 01:34am I read a book written about her, The Blood Countess, I'm not sure who it's by but it was really interesting. I think how it ended was she was locked away in a room and at first she didn't know what was going on until they started blocking the door with bricks or something like that, then when no one came when she called she realized that they were killing her, and it ended with her dying. At least, I think that's what happened. I find the whole thing she did odd but not...completely disgusting? |
Unrequited Love
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 13
Gender: Female
Posts: 1064 | October 25th, 2008 at 04:46am Elizabeth Bathory sounds like she would have been a very interesting woman, to say the least. I mean, these days you'd never expect anyone of a high level in society to bathe in young girl's blood. She definitely would have been a perfect serial killer, had she not been caught. In my opinion, at least. |
laydeeaa
Amateur Author
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 229 | October 26th, 2008 at 01:59pm She was a very creep ywoman.
She even had her friends do the same right?
Or were her friends totally cool with it anyway?
I think it's the latter one. |
hugxaxharlequin
Writer's Block
Age: 13
Gender: Female
Posts: 71 | October 27th, 2008 at 08:39pm Elizabeth Bathory was the countess of Hungary,
the legend goes that her chambermaid was brushing her hair but pulled to hard so 'Lizzie backhanded her, seeing the blood on her hand she thought that the skin looked more youthfull.
She used to put girls into cages with nails in them, that were to thin to sit down, and to short to stand, then shake them.
She wacked girls with 'cat tails' which were strips of leather with glass and nails at one end.
And aparently she used to slit girls wrists, arms, back, legs, and torso over a bath then bathe in it. And drink it.
Eww... |
music_is_love
Amateur Author
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 101 | October 29th, 2008 at 03:48am I saw this and I was like... I've heard of her. Then I started reading and was like... DUH.
I think it's fascinating what she did. Even if it was cruel and horrible.
It's like... one of those questions: "If you could meet any person, dead or alive, who would it be?"
But then of course you would have to take like a baseball bat to keep her crazy ass off of you. o.o
-giggles- |
Freddie Mercury.
Grammar Guru
Age: 68
Gender: Male
Posts: 5411 | October 29th, 2008 at 08:34am hugxaxharlequin:Elizabeth Bathory was the countess of Hungary,
the legend goes that her chambermaid was brushing her hair but pulled to hard so 'Lizzie backhanded her, seeing the blood on her hand she thought that the skin looked more youthfull.
She used to put girls into cages with nails in them, that were to thin to sit down, and to short to stand, then shake them.
She wacked girls with 'cat tails' which were strips of leather with glass and nails at one end.
And aparently she used to slit girls wrists, arms, back, legs, and torso over a bath then bathe in it. And drink it.
Eww...
She didn't drink it.  |
