222 - Serial Killer Elizabeth Bathory

"Hi Sandman, If you need inspiration then talking about Countess Bathory might open a Pandora box on female nature. Please take my suggestion seriously. Thank You." Well, MR. Anonymous I am going to take your suggestion seriously and do a video about her. This is a topic I've been wanting to cover for a while now and hopefully this will be the first part in a series of videos called female serial killers. Countess Bathory was known as Countess Dracula or the Blood Countess because she had apparently killed up to six hundred and fifty girls in her castle and according to legends she bathed in their blood. She would hire local servant girls from the towns around her, bring them to her castle for work and then punish them in treacherous and murderous ways. Her subjects were scared of her were scared of standing up to her. There's more to this story then we know. And bathing in blood was nothing compared to what she was doing to these women. She kept the girls would be in cages and she would pierce them with a lance and blood would rain down onto her from the cages above. And she almost got away with treating her subjects in this way because they were Slovaks and not Hungarians. The Hungarians looked down on the Slovaks as being sub-human so other Hungarians didn't care how she treated her servant girls. Also back then torch-er and cruelty were accepted as part of the normal way the wealthy aristocrats against the peasants. She controlled the peasants and dished out cruelty. But being cruel wasn't considered anything special. When Countess Barthory was eventually put on trial she was charged with excessive and extra-ordinary cruelty. Many of the stories about her don't really talk about the fact that these ethnic tensions existed in the country at that time. And the more I research about her the more I notice that her lashing out at these servant girls has a lot to do with the death of her husband and the loss of her land and power. She took out the fear and anxiety of aging and losing her prestige on these poor Slovak girls. And her husband, before he died taught her the star kicking. This is a procedure where you take a servant girl and little pieces of paper soaked in oil, put them between the servant girls toes and then and you set the paper of fire and the servant kicks and sees stars from the pain. Countess Bathory came from a culture that was more Klingon then human. And I'm not defending her cruelty. I'm just saying it's not as cut and dry as we'd like to think. But what's shocking is that even with the rumors of her killing servant girls people still wanted to work for her. That's how desperate times were in Hungary because most of the young men were dying in on the front lines with the Turks so parents often sold their own daughters into slavery to her as a way to survive.Elizabeth Bathory -The Blood Countess-Part 1/3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU98g...Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/mgtow/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy