She was born in 1560. She had a twisted family with an uncle that worshipped the devil and her brother was a sex fiend. When she was older she started practicing magic. She carried a piece of parchment with the following incantation on it to protect against the police: "Isten help me! You little cloud, help me too! Give me health, protection and long life to Elizabeth. You little cloud, when I am in danger, send ninety-nine cats! I order you to do so because you are supreme commander of the cats. Give orders to the cats. Tell the cats to gather from wherever they be, on mountains, waters, rivers, seas. Order ninety-nine cats to come with speed and bite the heart of King Matthias. Order them to bite the heart of Moses Cziraky, and to bite the heart of my cousin the prime minister. Command them to claw and bite the heart of Red Megyeri. And keep Elizabeth safe from harm."The incantation never came true but the priest that came with the police for a raid to the castle was mauled by six cats followed by a group of mice as he started walking up the stairs. The Countess was beautiful with black hair and a pale complexion with high cheekbones and amber eyes like a cat. She married at fifteen to Count Frencz Nadasedy who changed his name to Bathory. The marriage resulted in three boys and a girl. One day when the maid was brushing Elizabeth's hair she accidentally tugged on it. Elizabeth slapped the girl so hard that blood was drawn. She rubbed the blood between her fingers and smeared it into her pores. To maintain her youth she would bathe in the blood of young virgins. Elizabeth had men go out to lure girls to the castle with the promise of a job. When none of the girls returned no one would go near the castle. So they started kidnapping girls. Elizabeth drained forty to three hundred young women of blood before she was captured. One of Elizabeth's prisoners escaped and relayed what was going on at the castle. The girls would pierce their veins to make the blood flow. If a girl fainted a piece of paper that was set on fire would be placed between her toes to awaken her and so she could feel the horror. Elizabeth's reign of terror went on for ten years. A priest on behalf of a parishoner who's daughter fell victim to Elizabeth demanded that King Matthias raid the castle. On New Year's the castle was invaded by her cousin and governor of the province Count Gyorgy Thurzo and soldiers. Elizabeth was confined to the castle and her accomplices were taken to jail. The girls that were still alive were set free. Elizabeth stayed locked up in her castle while the trial was going on. The servants confessed everything. Johannes Ujvary's testimony revealed that as far as he knew thirty-seven unmarried girls were killed and that six of them he got himself by telling them about jobs at the castle. The girls were tightly bound and tied with tourniquets. Their veins were then slashed with scissors. Some of them were tortured by two old women named Dorottya and Illona who were rewarded if they did it well. The girls were whipped and cut with knives and sometimes they were frozen in icy water. Elizabeth mainly tortured her victims alone. Illona testified that forty girls were tortured and killed. All involved except Elizabeth, Illona, and Dorottya were beheaded and cremated. Illona and Dorottya had their fingers torn off one by one, and then they were burned alive. They declared Countess Elizabeth Bathory to be insane. She was sentenced to life imprisonment in her walled up room. She died in 1614.
