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Elizabeth Bathory. Born – 7 August 1560 Died – 21 August 1614.
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[Audio] The Blood Countess or Countess Dracula was born in 1560 on a family estate in Nyírbátor, Royal Hungary. She spent her childhood at Ecsed Castle, when she was a child she had seizures that may have been caused by epilepsy at that time the symptoms were diagnosed as falling sickness and treatments included rubbing blood of a non-sufferer on the lips of an epileptic or giving the epileptic a mix of a non-sufferer's blood and piece of skull as their episode ended. when she was young she learned Latin, German, Hungarian and Greek. at the age of 13 before her first marriage she allegedly gave birth to a child, the child was supposedly given away to a local woman who was trusted by the Bathory family, The woman was then paid for her actions, and the child was taken to Wallachia..
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[Audio] Báthory and four of her servants were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and women between 1590 and 1610. Her servants were put on trial and convicted, whereas Báthory was confined to her home. She was imprisoned within Castle of Csejte. She abducted peasant girls to torture and kill. She often bit chunks of flesh from her victims, and one unfortunate girl was even forced to cook and eat her own flesh. After exposing the evidence to the King, György Thurzó led a raid of Báthory's castle and arrested the Hungarian countess. Báthory's accomplices were put on trial and burned as witches, but as a noble, the countess herself could not be tried or executed, which would have caused a public scandal..
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[Audio] Bathory is reported to have killed at least six hundred victims, earning her a Guinness World Record for most prolific female murderer..