Elizabeth Bathory Raises the Bar for Sickos Everywhere
If contemporary accounts are to be believed, Elizabeth Bathory is the most prolific serial killer of all time. She makes Ted Bundy look like a chump, and Jeffrey Dahmer a mere dabbler in torture and perversion.
In a word, this lady was a real whack-job.
Bathory was born in 1560 to an aristocratic Transylvanian family that spawned kings, cardinals, judges, and knights. Thanks to copious inbreeding, her family tree also had its share of nuts (giggle), including sadists, lechers, psychotics, devil worshippers, and alcoholics. Elizabeth herself is believed to have suffered from seizures that caused uncontrollable fits of rage.
At the age of 15, Elizabeth was married off to Count Ferencz Nadasdy, also known as “The Black Knight,” who seems a fitting spouse for a gal who would come to be known as “The Blood Countess.”
Stuck out in the sticks while the hubby was away fighting the Turks, young Elizabeth needed to find ways to keep herself amused. She chose to gather around her those claiming to be witches, sorcerers, alchemists and other practitioners of the black arts. Together they engaged in unspeakable acts of cruelty against the local peasant population to while away the hours.
