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Originally posted by leagleaze
Yeah, it was Bathory. The story was interesting, it had her as this innocent soul who married a man who at first seemed good and Christian. He goes off to war and a Gypsy woman happens to appear, and Liz invites her to move in. Liz is so naive she is unaware that two women can have sex and that is what she was doing in hubbie's absence. She figures since she already degraded herself so much that she might as well get into the torturing. Eventually she releases one of the prisoners and sends her maid off with a confession. Everyone else is put to death and she is walled up.
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Huh. Sounds a lot sexier than the real thing, though apparently she got around. I think some of the records of her trial still exist, and are supposed to be interesting. It does sound like she just got bored out of her skull and turned to witchcraft killed about 600 girls for fun, skincare and cuisine. But the whole thing, with her lovers, and turkish torture implements, and evil dwarf sidekick, does make for good gothic reading. But it is still an interesting story in light of the local politics. She was Hungarian, after all, and the region was slavic. And the reason she got arrested in the end was because the king owed her money and she was trying to collect.
