Elizabeth Bathory and Atilla the Hun

During her marriage, Elizabeth was also rumored to have cheated on her husband many times. It is not
known if he knew about these affairs, but since he was a career soldier, he was away from home often,
and could have missed the fact.

When Elizabeth first became interested in torturing her servents is not well known, but it most likely
started after her marriage. With her husband away from home, Elizabeth had the run of the house, as well
as the servants, so her antics were surely considered law. In the beginning, she tortured her female
servents, (It is interesting to note now that Elizabeth only killed women.) by burning them with irons, or
placing hot coins on their palms, or forcing them to serve her guests naked when they did something
wrong. She must have enjoyed these little endevores, because soon after she pursued torture as a
hobby, and often killed the servents she had. She killed so many that she had to look far away from home
to get more unsuspecting young women.

One of the worst noted events was one evening when a troop of soldiers visited the castle. When they
sat down to table they were shocked and embarrased to see the poor naked girls serving their dinner, and
horrified after to discover that Elizabeth had turned them into cannibals for the evening, by serving them a
very unsavory meal.

Shortly after, Elizabeth Bathory went on trial for her crimes, at which hundreds testified. She was
sentenced to imprisonment, and was walled up in a room in her house, where she stayed for the rest of
her life.

After her death she became a legend. A Vampire.

The vampire legend started immediately after her death. People were shocked by what they had heard
about her. Not just because the crimes were terrible, but because she was a woman. A rich and
powerfull one at that. Her legend spread far and wide, and she became one of the main models for Bram
Stoker's Dracula.

The legend goes that Elizabeth was having her hair done by a female servent, and the servent pulled too
hard. Elizabeth was angry, and pinched the girls nose very hard causeing it to bleed. She looked at her
hand where the blood had been, and was astonished to see that the skin appeared to be whiter and
younger looking. After that, elizabeth had the girl killed, and ordered her blood to be drained into a
bathtub, where she bathed. Supposedly, she did this often, and even began drinking the blood of her
victims.

When this legend was investigated, there was no mention of her ever drinking the blood of her victims, or
bathing in it, but she was said to have gotten very angry at one servent, and in a frenzy bit a chunk of
her flesh out.

Regardless, she was nicknamed The Bloody Countess.

Atilla the Hun is one of the most feared barbarians of all time, and is known to have ravaged much of the
European continent during the 5th century A.D.

Atilla lived between the years 406 and 452 A.D., and was King of the Huns during 433-452. During this
time, Atilla was more aggresive than any other king before him, and was known to be very unpredictable.
In his day, he and his huns were considered to be the "Scourage of God." The devestation they caused
Gaul before the battle of Chalons in 451 A.D. became a part of medieval tradition.

Atilla was feared by all who knew him. He even looked evil. He had a large head, small deep seated eyes,
a flat nose, broad shoulders and a short square body.

The Huns had a reputation for cruelty, which, as King of the Huns, Atilla was probably the most cruel of
all. In the year 433, Atilla was not the only King. He shared the crown with his brother Bleda, but then
killed him two yers later. It is also rumoured that he ate two of his sons. It is not known why, or even if
this is true, but the story suggests that his wife may have served the cooked children to her husband
pretending that they were animals for some type of revenge.

Some of the greatest cities in Europe were sacked and put to the torch by Atilla and his Huns. Paris
though was spared, because St. Genvieve was in the city. Seems the King of the Huns was not pure evil
after all.

The Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory was born in 1560 into a very rich and
well connected family. Her uncle, Stephen Bathory was the king of Poland. No
one could have predicted that Elizabeth would torture and kill some 650 women,
and become one of the worst mass murderers of all time.

Elizabeth was promised to marry Ferencz Nadasdy when she was 10 by her family,
and then finally married him when she was 15. She kept her birth name rather
than his name because her family was much more powerfull trhan his. There were
many rumours the surrounded Elizabeth at that time. One was that Elizabeth had
had many affairs with men already, and had even become pregnant before her
wedding and delivered a child. It is not known if this is true, or what may have
happened to the child.

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