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Erzebet Bathory (usually Anglicised as Elizabeth Bathory) (1560-1614) was a Hungarian Countess. She was arrested in 1610 and the story that emerged has entered legend. Placed on trial, she was accused of murdering servants and peasant girls from the nearby region. It was claimed that she had killed as many as 650 women, which would make her the second most prolific serial killer in history, although the numbers wildly vary and at the trial she was only convicted of 80 murders. According to witness accounts, she gained pleasure from sadistic mutilation and causing deaths by a variety of means, including freezing and starving victims. In recent years, revisionist scholars have questioned the reliability of some of the witness statements and whether these were fabricated. One of the most notorious stories about Countess Bathory is that she had virgin women drained of their blood and bathed in this in the belief it would rejuvenate her youth – some scholars have cited this as one of the bases for the legend of the vampire. Although the truth, when examined, is that this is one of the more unreliable claims about Countess Bathory, even though it has become the most notorious aspect in legend. (There is also no evidence that her preference was for virgins either). In 1610, under the orders of Gyorgy Thurzo (who was actually the Prime Minister of Hungary), Countess Bathory was sentenced to house arrest where she was walled up inside a room in her castle and was found dead there several years later.
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