Elizabeth Báthory

Elizabeth Báthory

Gloria Díaz ParrasPeriod 1 Miss L and Miss McCaig December 21, 2023

Elizabeth Báthory is proclaimed the most prolific serial killer of all time, accused of killing more than 600 young women inside her lavish castles. If you want to know her dark story, this is the perfect presentation for you...

Young life

Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a 16th century Hungarian noblewoman from the family of Báthory, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia). For this time the country was involved in a brutal long-running war with the turks. As a child, Báthory had multiple seizures that may have been caused by epilepsy. At the time, symptoms relating to epilepsy were diagnosed as falling sickness and treatments included rubbing blood of a non-sufferer on the lips of an epileptic or giving the epileptic a mix of a non-sufferer's blood and piece of skull as their episode ended. At the age of 13, before her first marriage, Báthory allegedly gave birth to a child. The child, said to have been fathered by a peasant boy, was supposedly given away to a local woman who was trusted by the Báthory family.

A proposal made by some source in order to explain Báthory's cruelty later in her life is that she was trained by her family to be cruel for the bloody and cruel "treatments" to which she was subjected due to her epilepsy.

Her father was Baron George VI Báthory and her mother was Baroness Anna Báthory, but they had no involvement in the case.

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Adult life

On 8 May 1575, at the age of 15, Báthory was married to Count Ferenc Nádasdy. Three years into their marriage, Nádasdy became the chief commander of Hungarian troops, leading them to war against the Ottomans. Báthory managed business affairs and the family's multiple estates during the war. This role included responsibility for the Hungarian and Slovak people, and Báthory was charged with the defense of her husband's estates.

Báthory was raised a Calvinist Protestant. As a young woman, she learned Latin, German, Hungarian and Greek. Born into a privileged family of nobility, Báthory was endowed with wealth, education, and a prominent social rank

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Adult life

Apart from the one se had when she was 13 years old, the couple had four more children: Anna, Orsolya, András and Pául. Some chronicles also indicate that the couple had another son, named Miklós. However, this cannot be confirmed, and it could be that he was simply a cousin or died young.

She wasn't a loner, she used the help of her servants to carry out her cruel murders, and some documents also claim that despite what was expected, she was a very good mother.

Mental State

While it is difficult to diagnose historical figures with modern psychological terms, the accounts of her actions suggest extreme cruelty and sadism. Some historians and psychologists have speculated that she may have exhibited traits consistent with psychopathy or sadistic personality disorder

As we have seen, due to the time it was not diagnosed, but rather historians have assumed these mental disorders, therefore it did not receive any treatment.

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Her crimes

Báthory's torture included sticking pins and needles under her servants' fingernails, tying them up, smearing them with honey, and leaving them to be attacked by bees and ants.

Her motives were merely sadistic and to satisfy her own psychopathic needs.

Her crimes lasted from 1590 to 1610, so it was 20 years.

She was accused of killing more than 600 young women, most of them belonging to her servants, but whose names are unknown.

Elizabeth Báthory took the blood of her victims to bathe in it with the supposed justification that it kept her young.

Due to the time there was no media that could cover the case, and although the activities that the Countess practiced were known, no one dared to report it since she occupied a position of power and they were afraid of being her next victims.

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Her crimes in five stpes:

• Báthory reportedly believed that human blood would keep her looking young and healthy and therefore she is said to have bathed in the blood of her victims.
• When her husband died at the beginning of the 17th century, her situation became much worse: Báthory began kidnapping peasant girls to torture and kill them.
• She often bit off pieces of flesh from her victims and one unfortunate girl was even forced to cook and eat her own flesh.
• She carried out her torture and murder in a torture chamber that her husband built to satisfy her specifications.
• Bathory sometimes tortured girls by driving needles into their fingers, cutting their noses or lips or whipping them with stinging nettles. She would bite shoulders and breasts, as well as burning the flesh, including the genitals, of some victims

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Evidence/ Witnesses

Between 1602 and 1604, after rumors of Báthory's atrocities had spread throughout the kingdom, Lutheran minister István Magyari made complaints against her, both publicly and at the court in Vienna. In 1610 György Thurzó, the Palatine of Hungary, was assigned to investigate. By October 1610 they had collected 52 witness statements; by 1611, that number had risen to over 300. The use of needles was mentioned by the collaborators in court. Some witnesses named relatives who died while at the gynaeceum. Others reported having seen traces of torture on dead bodies, some of which were buried in graveyards, and others in unmarked locations.

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Trial

On New Year's Eve 1612, Thurzó went to Csejte Castle and arrested Báthory along with four of her servants, who were accused of being her accomplices. Two trials were held in the wake of Báthory's arrest: the first was held on 2 January 1611, and the second on 7 January 1611. Most of the witnesses testified that they had heard the accusations from others, but did not see it themselves. However, two of the accomplices had their fingers torn out with a pair of red-hot pincers and were then burned alive. Another one was executed by beheading. And the last servant received a life sentence after evidence showed that she'd been abused by the other women.

Thurzó debated further proceedings with Báthory's son Paul and two of her sons-in-law. They originally planned for Báthory to be sent to a nunnery, but as accounts of her actions spread, they decided to keep her under strict house arrest. She was detained in the castle of Csejte for the remainder of her life, where she died at the age of 54. On the evening of 20 August 1614, Báthory complained to her bodyguard that her hands were cold. She went to sleep and was found dead the following morning

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What do I think was the reason for her crimes?

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Personally, I believe that there is no reason to do such an atrocity as Elizabeth Báthory did. Many times we try to find the answer to these crimes in mental illnesses or disorders, because our mind needs to excuse itself in something so as not to understand that the most absolute human evil really exists (I clarify that this does not mean that there are not people who really do kill due to mental illness). ). Furthermore, that satisfaction in killing for the sake of killing could have been aggravated by the cruel practices they did to her when she was a child due to her epilepsy, but I think that is just an aggravating factor and not the cause of the problem.

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