In 1610, Countessa Bathori (sometimes spelled Bathory)
was caught red-handed in the act of drinking human
blood in Csejtl Castle, also in the Carpathians. At
her trial she described how, years earlier, she had
hit a maid, for brushing her hair the wrong way, so
hard that blood spattered her face. When she washed
off the blood and looked in the mirror, her face
appeared more beautiful. From that moent, she began
to bathe regularly in virgins' blood- and , to obtain
it, she murdered 600 peasant girls. Three of them were
found, bound, tortured and drained of blood, in the
dungeons of her caslte where villagers forced their way
in. The Countess' three accomplices were burned at the
stake in 1611, but because of her noble birth she
couldn't be executed. Instead she was walled up alive
in her castle (in another book I read she was locked in
her room and everday the guards saw her drinking her own
blood to stay alive), and although she died on Aigist 2
1614, many believed she had achieved immorality though
drinking human blood and could continue to claim victims.
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