I believe that many people have seen the movie of vampires, vampires can live forever, forever youthful, but afraid of the sun. There really are "vampires" in history, and today we are going to talk about this real "vampire countess".
The Countess in the mirror
This "vampire" was called Báthori Erzsébet (1560-1614), Elizabeth was born in what is now Hungary, her parents were prominent aristocrats, the family had huge wealth, in 1575, 15-year-old Elizabeth and 20-year-old Ferenc, Ferenc was also born in a noble family, and Elizabeth can be said to be a door-to-door pair. After marriage Elizabeth inherited her mother's castle in the Carpathian Mountains and the surrounding 17 townships.
Historically Elizabeth's husband, Ferenc Nadasdi, was a Hungarian national war hero who fought at a very young age in the protracted war against the Ottomans. From then on, he fought outside the home for almost all the time, rarely at home, so Elizabeth had to take the place of her husband in business and the affairs of the surrounding towns.
Portrait of Elizabeth
In September 1603, Ferenc fell seriously ill during the battle against the Ottomans in buda and eventually died on 4 January 1604 at the age of 48. After the death of her husband, Elizabeth could only live alone, depressed. Before her husband's death, Elizabeth because of her husband's perennial conquest, the lonely Elizabeth constantly looked for a small white face to fill the loneliness of her husband's absence, it is said that Elizabeth found a lover one after another, the rumors also spread to Ferenc's ears, Ferenc also had no self-esteem, would rather continue to fight on the battlefield than go home, and her feelings for Elizabeth were indifferent. It is said that Ferenc once forced Elizabeth, who was pregnant at the time, to have sex after getting drunk, causing Elizabeth to have a miscarriage, and Elizabeth woke up to find that Ferenc was unscrupulously having fun with the maid. Since then, Elizabeth's heart has been twisted, and after Ferenc's death, Elizabeth feels that she is rapidly aging, which makes her afraid, panicked, and more and more. Elizabeth was convinced that the advice of a dark magician by her side could be used to maintain eternal youth with the blood of a virgin. So in order to get the blood, Elizabeth began to use the high salary as bait to attract the maidens of her territory villages to her castle as maids, and then tricked them into the "execution chamber of the noble lady" for various trivial reasons, where the maidens were killed and bloodied, and bathed in wooden barrels. Even more perverted is that elizabeth is said to have let her servants lick the blood from her after washing, because she thought that the towel would affect the effect of the blood bath. Because she often bathed with blood, she always carried a strong bloody gas on her body, but she didn't care and never used any perfume to cover it up.
Bloody bathing
Over time, because a large number of young girls disappeared, rumors of the existence of vampires in Elizabeth Castle went away, and no more girls dared to apply. Elizabeth went directly to the surrounding villages with her retinue to hunt, and as soon as she saw the maiden, she would faint and bleed the castle. Elizabeth grew bolder and bolder, and at first buried the body in the courtyard of the castle, and then directly threw the girl's body down the castle, until one day, a farmer found the body under the castle and reported it to the king. The king ordered a thorough investigation of the matter and sent an army to blockade Elizabeth's castle and arrest all the people in the castle, when the army found the remains of more than 80 young girls in the castle, in fact, the real number is far more, some estimate that at least 600 girls were killed by Elizabeth. Eventually, Elizabeth was spared death for her honorable origins and commuted to life in prison. She was imprisoned forever in a high-walled room in the castle, with no doors or windows, and only a small opening for food delivery. The servants, housekeepers, and black magicians who assisted her in her crimes were all sentenced to death and hanged.
According to rumors, Elizabeth's face quickly grew old after losing blood, and sometimes she even bit her wrist to suck blood. Four years later, Elizabeth was alone at the end of her life.