Ok, well since it seems my diary is a bit on morbid subjects, I shall now betalking about the oh-so famous "vampiric" Elizabeth Bathory. I first saw her on someones page on Vampirefreaks.com, then on someone elses and then on a movie I watched sooo naturaly I was compelled to find out what was with her. Elizabeth's history is a morbid, disturbing and shocking little story. She was born in Hungary in 1560 to Anna and George Bathory, and into one of the oldest and wealthiest families, but also one of the strangest. Her uncle was known as a santan worshipper and her other cousins and relatives were insane and perverted (in a corrupt way. Elizabeth would soon later follow into the same state of insanity. At 15 years old she married 25 year old Count Ferencz Nadasdy, who changed his last name to keep her surname so she became Elizabeth Bathory-Nadasdy. After she married, they moved to the castle Csejthe. The Count spent a lot of time away from the castle and his wife, fighting against the Turks, and in doing so earned him the title "The Black Hero of Hungary." As Elizabeth was so often left alone, she began to admire herself immensly to kill time and even after a while began to take up young men as lovers,and at one point ran away with one for a while. The Count forgave her after she returned home. As another pass time, Elizabeth would frequently visit her openly-bisexual aunt and enjoy herself. Not very long after the Countess began to take an interest in the occult. Conviniently, one of her maids, Dorothea Szentes, was a witch and was able to teach Elizabeth in the ways of the craft. Both the teachings and the maid herself encouraged and enhanced the Countess' santanic tendancies. Soon both women became fond of torture and inflicting pain, they began to practice their skills when disciplining the maids for whatever they did wrong. Soon, Elizabeth not only had her witch, but three other accomplices: Iloona Joo (her nurse), Johannes Ujvary (her man-servant), and Anna Darvula (another maid and Elizabeth's alleged lover.) Together they practiced the macabre ways of torturing the young maids of the house in a chamber below the castle. In 1600, the Count passed away, starting Elizabeth's real reign of terror. A while before her husband died had been given a reality check that would cost the lives of many young women. One day as a maid was brushing her hair and she pulled too hard. Elizabeth slapped the young woman (in the hand or face, I see both on different sites)so hard that some of the womans blood splashed onto the Countess's hand. Elizabeth saw the flesh on where the blood had landed, turned smooth and youthful as the young womans skin. The Countess thought she had found the secret to eternal youth. Over the following 10 years, Elizabeth's accomplices would bring her an abundant supply of young women to torture, kill and to use their blood to bathe in. At times she would even drink their blood to get some "inner beauty", which is where another part of her "vampirism" came from. But soon Elizabeth began to realize that the blood of simple peasant girls, was having little effect on the quality of her skin. Better blood was now required. Elizabeth then started picking girls from some of the surrounding lower nobility. These noble girls were consumed in exactly the same beastly fashion as the peasant girls who preceded them. However, with the disappearance of girls of noble birth, Elizabeth was now becoming very careless in her actions. People who lived in the neighboring villages, had already begun to talk. And soon the rumor about the horror in Castle Csejthe reached the Hungarian Emperor. The Emperor then ordered Elizabeth's own cousin, the Count Cuyorgy Thurzo, who was governor of the province to raid the castle. On December 30, 1610. A band of soldiers led by Elizabeth's own cousin, raided Castle Csejthe at night. They were horrified by the terrible sights in the castle. A dead girl was lying in the main hall, drained of blood, another girl, who had her body pierced, was still alive. In the dungeon they later discovered, were several girls waiting in prison cells, some of whose bodies had been tortured. Below the castle, they found the bodies of some 50 dead girls. During the trial 1611, a register with the names of around 650 victims, was found in the Countess's living quarters. But the trial was largely just for show and to make the occasion "official". A complete transcript of the trial was made at the time, and it still remains today in Hungary. All of Elizabeth's four accomplices were sentenced to death. Only Elizabeth was not brought before a court and tried. She remained confined in her castle while her four sadistic accomplices were tried for their crimes. But she got her punishment, when the Hungarian Emperor demanded her condemn to lifelong imprisonment in her own castle. Stonemasons were brought to her Castle Csejthe, to wall up the windows and the door to the bedchamber with the Countess still inside. Here she would spend the remaining days of her life, with only a small opening for food to be passed to her. In 1614, four years after she was walled in, one of the Countess's jailers found her food untouched. After peeking through the small opening in Elizabeth's walled-up cell, he saw her lying face down on the floor. Elizabeth Bathory the "Blood Countess" was dead at the age of fifty-four.