Woman. Psycho. Murder. Serial killer. Torturer. These are some of the few words that the woman named Elizabeth Bathory, has been named. Known for killing over three-hundred young peasant girls and inspiring many great stories, Elizabeth Bathory is one of the lesser known killers in history today, despite all the unbelievable acts she had committed. But why did Bathory kill so many girls? What was made Elizabeth so sadistic?Why was she caught after years of murder on her hands? Why had she only killed only females? Who was Elizabeth Bathory, actually? Is her family apart of this nightmare also? Why is Elizabeth not commonly known today? On August 7 ,1560, Anna Báthory and George VI Báthory gave birth to baby Elizabeth Báthory, little did …show more content…
that predict that she would turn into a psychotic manslaughter. Both Anna Báthory and George VI Báthory, were Báthorys at birth. These things like inbreeding were uncommon upon the aristocrats of 16th Century Eastern Europe. To have purity in the royal line was seen as paramount. The Báthorys were one of the most powerful protestant families in Hungary, they numbered warlords, politicians, and clerics. Supposedly, Báthory’s ancestor Stephan Báthory fought alongside Count Vlad Dracula,in one of his many attempts to reclaim the Wallachian throne. In his namesake, he became Prince of Transylvania in 1517 and later to be elected as King of Poland. Not everyone in the family was as prestigious, and respectable, that included Elizabeth’s brother ( also named Stephan ) said to be a drunkard and a lecher. Báthory was highly-educated for her time period, being fluent in Hungarian, Latin and Greek. That is very impressive, since even men, who generally would have been better schooled than their female spouse. It is also said that she was a great beauty, although it is unlikely that someone would speak ill of such a powerful family. At the young age of eleven, Elizabeth was engaged to Count Ferenc Nadasdy, a Hungarian nobleman who is also a skilled warrior and athlete. His family was one of the wealthiest and most influential family, at the time, in Hungary. Even though Count Ferenc was five to fifteen years Elizabeth’s senior, his mother arranged the engagement. They say that from the very beginning, ever since she was a child, that Elizabeth was crazy and that she had a sadistic behavior. She would witness the brutal justice handed down on her family officers back on their estate. One incident was when a gypsy, accused of theft, was sewn in the belly of a dying horse. Only to find that his head had exploded and was left to slowly die and rot. It has been reported that Elizabeth was actually a good wife, well at least in her husband’s presence. Since Ferenc was a warrior by nature, he was frequently absent from home. Supposably Elizabeth, at the time took in many young men as lovers. She spent her time visiting her aunt, who might have also been insane. After ten years of marriage, Elizabeth finally gave her husband, children; three daughters and one son, Elizabeth was an excellent mother. It was because the absence of Elizabeth’s husband, that Elizabeth said to have begun torturing young peasant and servant girls for her own entertainment. Some say that Ferenc himself, introduced this new hobby to his wife. He made a room in the castle just for her to have fun, with different types of toys and devices to use against the young girls. Elizabeth could not do this on her own, though, her accomplices at the beginning were Helena Jo, her childrens’ wet-nurse, Dorothea Szentes, also known as Dorka, a peasant woman with the physical strength alleged to be a witch, and Johanne Ujvary, referred to as Ficzko, a dwarf-like manservant. Elizabeth, at this time, would beat her maidservants with a barbed lash and a heavy cudgel. Then would drag them naked into the snow and doused with cold water until they froze to death. Elizabeth’s husband, Ferenc, died in January 1604, of an infected wound that was said to be inflicted by a harlot who he refused to pay.
They say that once Ferenc died, Elizabeth’s true monster came out. Elizabeth’s hobby of torturing young girls turned into an addiction that she could not live without. Instead of only killing her castle’s servants, she had her little minions kidnap peasant girls from other villages. At times, fathers would send their “trouble” daughters to Elizabeth, for discipline or to learn how to act more ladylike. Sadly, the men did not know that that would be the last time they would ever see their beautiful daughters …show more content…
again. According to the surviving testimonials, she and/or her closest servants tortured and killed hundreds of young peasant girls and Elizabeth’s own servants. For instance, (beware of the gore) they would keep her servants chained up every night so tight around their wrist that their hands turned blue and spurted blood. She beat them to the point that there was so much blood on the walls and beds that they had to use ashes to soak up the blood.
Burned her servants with metal sticks, read-hot keys, and coins; ironed the soles to their feet and stuck burning rods into their vaginas. Stabbed them in their mouths and fingernails with needles and cut their hands, lips, and noses with scissors. She used needles, knives, candles, and her own teeth to lacerate servants’ genitals. Had them stand in tubs of ice water up to their necks outside until they died. She once smeared a naked girl with honey and left her outside to be bitten by ants, wasps, bees, and other insects. Starved the girls for a week and if they got thirsty, made them drink their own urine. Forced the girls to cook and eat their own flesh, usually from the buttocks, or make sausages and serve it to the guest. Stuffed five servants’ corpses underneath a bed and continued to feed them as if they were still alive. When Elizabeth was too sick to even stand on her two feet, she had her servants bring a girl into her room. Elizabeth had literally bitten into the girl’s flesh and ripped it off her, from the cheeks to her breast. At this time a legend was discovered about Elizabeth, after striking a servant girl who accidentally pulled Elizabeth’s hair while combing it, the blood seemed to reduce the signs of ageing on her skin. This caused Elizabeth to start bathing in young girl’s blood, she favored virgin’s blood the most. Of course, this one might be a myth since there has been many horrific
eye-witness accounts of her crimes, but none seem to describe the blood bath. One testified that on some days Elizabeth had stark-naked girls laid flat on the floor of her bedroom and tortured them so much that one could scoop up the blood by the pailful. When born to a wealthy, powerful family, you would never expect that a sweet little child would turn into a psycho killer. Elizabeth Bathory, was exactly that born from a rich family. She married a powerful and wealthy man. Then in her free time had a sweet hobby of torturing young peasant girls. Or course, in the end she was caught and punished for all her wrong doings. In conclusion, I am done with this essay!
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Countess Elizabeth Bathory is known as the most vicious female serial killer. Coming from a noble family in Kingdom, Hungary, no one really knows why she went out of her way torture hundreds of women. Either way throughout about a 20 year time span, Bathory spent her time not only ruling multiple castles, but taking in innocent women and children of the local men and women and making them her own. “Bathory and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of young women between 1585 and 1610” (Wikipedia 1).
At the age of 14, she delivered a child. This child was from another father, so it was killed. The following year she was married to Count Ferencz Nadasdy. He was a very powerful noble in Hungary. Because of his high power, he was often chosen to govern the Hungarian Army during the Ottoman wars. He was not very supportive of her. Only marrying her for her father’s money and power. Making her feel bad about herself. Some people believe that this is why she started to kill and torture the common women, making them feel bad about being a commoner, and her feeling good about being a noble’s daughter.
...men who kept them in bondage and to sleep with them?” (6). Almost every night she would have to lie on her back and make love to her husband where she “unleashed [her] fury and [their] moments of love-making resembled a battle” (23) willingly or not. She was stripped of her body and womanly factors, and in her husband's eyes was made to be his sexual slave.
Huppé, Bernard F. "Rape and Woman's Sovereignty in the Wife of Bath's Tale." Modern Language Notes 63.6 (1948): 378-81. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Elizabeth was the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. She was born on 7 September 1533 at Greenwich Palace. Her birth was possibly the greatest disappointment of her father's life. He had wanted a son and heir to succeed him as he already had a daughter, Mary, by his first wife, Katherine of Aragon. He had not divorced Katherine, and changed the religion of the country in the process, to have only another daughter. Elizabeth's early life was consequently troubled. Her mother failed to provide the King with a son and was executed on false charges of incest and adultery on 19 May 1536. Her marriage to the King was declared null and void, and Elizabeth, like her half-sister, Mary, was declared illegitimate and deprived of her place in the line of succession. The next eight years of her life saw a quick succession of stepmothers. There was Jane Seymour who died giving birth to the King's longed for son, Edward; Anne of Cleves who was divorced; Catherine Howard who was beheaded; and finally Catherine Parr. For generations, historians have debated whether the constant bride changing of her father was responsible for Elizabeth's apparent refusal to marry. It is certainly possible that the tragic fates of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard impressed upon her a certain fear of marriage, but there may have been other reasons for the Queen's single state, such as a fear of childbirth, which claimed the lives of a significant number of women in this period. Even if the Queen had no personal reservations about marriage, there were political problems with almost every contender for her hand. Religion was a major divisive issue, and there was also the problem of whether Elizabeth would have to relinquish any of her royal powers to a husband in an age when the political sphere was exclusively male.