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Scary Bitches: 15 of the Scariest Women You'll Ever Meet!

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With all of the attention placed on murderers of the male persuasion, you may be under the mistaken impression that the fairer sex has little if any blood on their hands. Sure, women have killed people over the years, but aside from a poisoning here and there, they couldn’t have been that bad, right? Wrong. True, there have been fewer female serial killers than men (that we know of), but as this book shows the women who have taken part in this sickening pastime were every bit as twisted, cruel, and terrifying as their overhyped male counterparts. From bathing in blood to baby-killing, the fifteen women profiled in this book have stories shocking enough to make even the toughest, creatine-guzzling he man faint. 
 
Dear reader, your heart may not be able to han
dle the shocking true facts presented in this humble volume. You have been warned.



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Introduction 
 With all of the attention placed on murderers of the male persuasion, you may be under the mistaken impression that the fairer sex has little if any blood on their hands. Sure, women have killed people over the years, but aside from a poisoning here and there, they couldn’t have been that bad, right? Wrong. True, there have been fewer female serial killers than men (that we know of), but as this book shows the women who have taken part in this sickening pastime were every bit as twisted, cruel, and terrifying as their overhyped male counterparts. From bathing in blood to baby-killing, the fifteen women profiled in this book have stories shocking enough to make even the toughest, creatine-guzzling he man faint.

Elizabeth Bathory: The Countess of Blood 

 Countess Elizabeth Bathory de Ecsed was history’s first celebrity serial killer and possibly the most famous serial killer of all time. Her story has inspired dozens of novels, movies, metal songs, video games, trading cards, comic books, and at least two operas.

Her biggest claim to fame is inspiring the story of Dracula and much of the modern vampire mythology. Novelist Bram Stoker supposedly used her story as the basis for his novel Dracula. More recently, numerous movies and television shows have linked her to Dracula himself, even alleging that Bathory was Dracula’s wife. That, like much of the mythology that’s grown up around her, is false: Dracula died at least two centuries before she was born.

Even when shorn of the vampire mythology, Countess Bathory’s story is still bizarre and entertaining enough to be a novel. When you read her life’s tale, it’s easy to see why people associate Countess Bathory with vampires. Even if she wasn’t a legendary bloodsucker, she certainly behaved like one.

A Privileged Childhood 

 Elizabeth Bathory (Erzsebeth Bathory in her native Hungarian) really was a countess. Her family was also very important; one of her cousins, Stefan Bathory, was King of Poland and fittingly Duke of Transylvania (Dracula’s homeland). Elizabeth was born in Nyibator, Hungary around 1561 and grew up in Ecsed Castle in Transylvania.

Countess Bathory was a wild young woman who may have suffered from mental illness. She apparently had a terrible temper and displayed incredible aggression. When she was 14, Elizabeth reportedly scandalized her family by getting pregnant by a peasant. When she was 15, Elizabeth got her title by marrying Count Ferencz Nadasy, a famous soldier who spent most of his time fighting the Turks.

As a girl, Elizabeth was linked to witchcraft; her aunt was reputed to be a witch and her uncle an alchemist and a devil worshipper. One of her nurses was later arrested for witchcraft and accused of sacrificing children in black magic.

 

The Crimes that Created a Legend 

 Countess Bathory was an important woman whose husband commanded the Army that defended Hungary from the far more powerful Turks. She had control of the Castle of Csjete, a castle on the main invasion route between the Ottoman Empire and Vienna, the capitol of the Austrian Empire.

Bathory was obsessed with beauty and her appearance. She spent hours admiring herself in mirrors and changed her clothing several times a day in an age when most people only owned one set of clothes.

It was this obsession with beauty that led to her crimes and reputation as the Blood Countess. She started luring peasant girls to her castle with promises of work as maids, then killed them, and according to legend, bathed in their blood. The idea was to keep Countess Bathory’s skin looking young, but she may have been sacrificing them to the devil or a deity called Isten.

Later on, Countess Bathory, who could reportedly read and write four languages, established a finishing school for the daughters of the local gentry. Instead of teaching the girls manners, she murdered them as well. Later accounts indicated that she or her henchmen tortured and sexually abused the girls before killing them.

The abuse the girls were subjected to was particularly horrific. The victims were locked in a cellar and beaten until their bodies swelled up. The Countess often participated in the brutality herself and often had to change her clothes because she got blood on them. Some stories indicate that Countess Bathory’s husband, Count Nadasy, also participated in the killing and torture when he wasn’t at war.

The number of young women murdered by the Blood Countess is unknown, but some historians speculate the body count could reach as high as 650. If that is true, it would make her the greatest serial killer in history. She not only conducted killings at Csjeste, but also at her other estates in Hungary and even in Vienna.

Part of the reason Bathory was able to butcher so many victims was that she had lots of help. In addition to her husband, most of the servants at her castle apparently participated in the mayhem.

Countess Bathory’s killing spree apparently went on unchecked from 1585-1610, a period of 25 years. The slaughter continued that long because she was a powerful and politically connected noblewoman. It finally took the intervention of the King of Austria to bring it to an end.

 

Trial and Sentence 

 By 1610, Countess Bathary’s crimes had grown so blatant that King Mathias II of Austria (who was also King of Hungary) was forced to act. Mathias ordered Gyorgy Thurzo, the Palatine (or governor of Hungary), to investigate allegations that a Lutheran minister was making against the Countess. Thurzo moved slowly because of her family’s wealth and power.

Interestingly enough, the government was afraid to execute Bathary because King Mathias had borrowed large amounts of money from her. The King would have had to pay this debt if the Countess had been executed, so he took other actions. Elizabeth was arrested and imprisoned for life and never placed on trial because a trial would have embarrassed the nobility. Four of Bathary’s servants were tried, and three of them were burned at the stake as witches.

Elizabeth Bathory was placed under house arrest and locked up alone in the tower of her castle for four years. She was found dead on Aug. 21, 1614. Countess Bathory’s reputation was already so bad that the local villagers refused to have her body buried there. Instead, her body is in her family crypt in her hometown of Ecsed.

 

She Lives on in Fiction 

 Countess Elizabeth Bathory died nearly 500 years ago, but she lives on in fiction and popular culture. Fictional versions of the Countess have battled such popular superheroes as Hellboy, Batman, and even Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the real world, she has inspired a Swedish metal band called Bathory, Japanese Manga comics, and hundreds of metal songs. Even though she was not a vampire, the Blood Countess seems to be immortal.
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