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Elizabeth Bathory Research Paper

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Lady Elizabeth Bathory (1560-1614) is the first name in the list of most infamous women serial killers. She holds the Guinness record for being the most prolific killer in history. She was so famous for her kills people in her country didn’t even mention her real name for decades, even after her death. There are novels and movies released based on her story, portraying her as a vampire, sucking the blood out of youngsters and emerging a violent kill streak, horror/thriller stories. Bathory was known as a vampire, a torturer, a creature beyond humans who bathed in the blood of innocents to maintain her looks. As is typically the case, the truth behind the story is far more interesting.

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Her parents being close relatives might’ve caused her to be born with many health issues, including severe epileptic seizures, which subtly manured the rumor of her being a vampire for the treatment method they used, which was to get fresh blood of a non-sufferer or their skull to touch her lips. There were many conspiracy theories about her childhood. The most prominent one is that she was fed the blood of her servants as medicine for her seizures, which made her a stoned-hearted killer as she grew …show more content…

The king didn’t care much about the servants being killed but took action when the noble girls went missing. He assigned the palatine of the Hungary, Thurzo to look in to the case and accusations about Bathory. During the trial, witnesses explained how Bathory lure the servants and torture kills them by, mutilating, freezing and starving them. They also claim that she bites flesh off the victims and uses weapons like knives and wax in her torture chamber. People who live by the castle have seen the girls, tortured by Bathory, running errands with their face disfigured or hands with burn marks. “One girl even came running out of the castle with a knife still on her

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