Notorious female murderers brutally murdered hundreds of people in order to stay beautiful
The Hollywood film "The Countess" tells the story of Countess Bartoli, whose real name is Elisabeth Bartoli, from the Novobartoli family in eastern Hungary. Although she is well-educated, she is cruel by nature. Not only did she take pleasure in abusing weekly maids, but she also brutally murdered more than 600 teenage girls and bathed them in their blood to keep her youth, for which she was also called"Bloody Countess"。
Elisabeth Bartoli came from an aristocratic family and was well educated.
Elisabeth Bartoli was born on August 7, 1560 in Etchedai, eastern Hungary, the son of a neo-Bartoli family, which had ruled Hungary for two hundred years since the time of its mediator, Stephen III, and gained great wealth and high social status in Elisabeta's generation.
Elizabeth studied classics and mathematics from an early age and spoke four languages: Latin, German, Hungarian and Greek. As a child, Elizabeth, like other aristocratic women, was a bit of a tomboy and loved fencing and mathematics, but she was still remembered as an intelligent, beautiful, noble and generous woman.
It is believed that the educated Elizabeth was so cruel because of the situation in Hungary at that time and her family obligations. From 1514 onwards, Hungarian law became extremely strict due to a peasant revolt, and not only did the Bathory family run the prison for a long time, but the nobility also had the power to set up family courts and juries, decide civil disputes, and even impose the death penalty, so it is likely that Elizabeth witnessed and enjoyed public executions.
In 1571, at the age of 11, Elisabeth was engaged to Baron Ferenc-Nadasti, 16, and the following year she moved to her husband's Château de Nadasti, and on May 8, 1575, she married Ferenc, who was 15 years old at the time. However, due to the fact that Ferenc was a Hungarian war hero and was absent from Hungary for a long time, they spent very little time together until 29 years later, when her husband Ferenc died of a serious illness contracted during the war.
Elizabeth brutally murdered many innocent people and was eventually sentenced to death.
In her twenties, Elizabeth had already discovered that it was her who was torturing the servants"Fun"She was even seen roasting little girls on a fire and dismembering their bodies with fire tongs. On the walls in front of her castle, severed limbs and severed hands can often be seen, which belonged to the countess"A masterpiece"。
As she grew older, she feared that the years would rob her of her beauty, so she listened to the witch's words and bathed in the blood of the maidens to maintain her youth, so she spared no expense and sent people to kidnap and deceive the maidens, and took them to the castle for blood, thus taking the blood and lives of hundreds of innocent maidens.
Between 1602 and 1604, rumors of Elizabeth's cruelty began to spread throughout the kingdom, and her husband's military priest, Istvan Machiali, publicly denounced her at the Viennese court. In 1610, King Matthias of Hungary ordered Georg Tulsor to investigate the matter.
According to the investigation, Elizabeth had four close associates as **: her guardian, Janos Juuri, the child's nanny, Ilora Joan Nagy and her friend Dorota Sentes, and the laundry lady Catarina Benicar. According to the testimonies, they first killed the daughters of local farmers, who were between the ages of 10 and 14, who were persuaded to work in exchange for high wages, and then killed them.
Elizabeth and her servants then took the daughters of the little nobles who sent their daughters to Elizabeth to learn court etiquette, and Elizabeth and her servants beat the maidens, burned or cut off their hands, tore off their faces, hands, and other parts of their bodies, and froze or starved them to death. Elizabeth's accomplices also mentioned the use of needles. According to the Budapest City Archives, the girls were scalded with hot pliers and then thrown into ice water. The girls were also tortured with boats.
On December 30, 1610, Tourso found a dead girl, a dying girl, a wounded woman, and a group of prisoners in Elizabeth's home, and Elizabeth and four accomplices were on the spot**. Subsequently, Elizabeth and her four accomplices were tried twice on 2 and 7 January 1611, respectively, and all four were executed, and Elizabeth was held in solitary confinement at Chachdisburg.
On August 21, 1614, she complained to the guards about cold hands, to which they replied:"It's all right, ma'am, go lie down. Elizabeth then went to sleep. The next day, she was found dead.
There are various theories about Elizabeth's lethal tactics, such as that she followed the witch's advice and bathed in the blood of a maiden, but these claims are more likely to be false. There are also claims that she killed more than 650 people in a row, but the death toll is still believed to be 80, based on the court verdict and available evidence.