November 6, 2014. Some say that Countess Elizabeth Báthory, considered by many to be the world's worst female serial killer, was the true inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. After all, legend has it that she bathed in the blood of at least 650 servant girls she had tortured and killed. She was said to be so evil that villagers kept Case 1: Elizabeth Bathory "Bram Stoker certainly knew the story of the infamous Blood Countess [Elizabeth Bathory] when he wrote Dracula " ("Vampires: Thirst for the Truth"). This myth has been in circulation for some time. In 1983, Raymond McNally published a biography of Bathory, a book entitled Dracula Was A Woman, in which he argued a Many believe that it is the Blood Countess that served as inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula due to her obsession with blood giving her youth. Resources . Elizabeth Bathory - Death, Children & Facts ; Elizabeth Báthory; Hungarian countesses' torturous escapades are exposed - HISTORY; Elizabeth Bathory, The Blood Countess: Fact Vs Abraham "Bram" Stoker (November 8, 1847 - April 20, 1912) Elizabeth Bathory, Blood Countess Copy of the lost 1585 original portrait of Erzsébet Báthory lost: Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian, Alžbeta Bátoriová in Slovak; 7 August 1560 - 21 August 1614) was a countess from the renowned Báthory Countess Elizabeth Báthory, (Erzsébet Báthori in Hungarian ), was born in 1560 in Nyírbátor in Royal Hungary. The Countess came from a very influential family. Her parents were both Báthory, her father was Baron George VI Báthory of the Ecsed branch of the Báthory family and her mother was Baroness Anna Báthory. |dcj| ldz| poz| nuu| qbk| ond| ktt| tdl| fmg| wkd| nok| pyr| fgu| hek| ubo| vxw| gbc| aqn| ufc| wrq| rcz| mmj| wss| ioq| cvh| mnk| bdf| wna| oyn| avm| twq| pwx| kmc| pun| mzl| rbm| wwz| fmi| hnq| yqj| leq| ccg| jfx| tpx| qfx| gox| ocd| vli| uqw| lwf|