The Bloody Countess
by For some people, aging is a very hard thing. Some will pay for some “miracle cream” while others will take matter in their own hands. Like the Countess.
Elizabeth was an immensely rich widow and because she had lent money to most of the nobility, in particular, to the King, her activities went undetected, or most likely, ignored until the year 1609.
Up until then, Elizabeth had only killed peasant girls. It is said that her cousin, the Lord of Palatine, had heard of her activities but, in order to protect the family name, he choose not to take any official action against her. However, he tried to have her commit to a nunnery, without success.
Things started to change for the worse shortly after Elizabeth’s accomplice Dravula died. Elizabeth got a new lover, the widow of one of her tenant farmer, Erszi Majorova. Erszi might have influenced, or convinced Elizabeth to turn herself toward noble girls. It might also be because Elizabeth was seeing less and less results from the blood coming from the peasant girls and she thought that she would have better results if the blood would be coming from a noble source.
The death of peasant girls might have gone unnoticed but the deaths of noble girls forced authorities to act. The King of Hungaria ordered her arrest in December of 1610.
Despite the fact that her accomplices were tried and sentenced to death, (at the exception of one), Elizabeth was never tried. Her relatives lobbied hard against a trial because, should Elizabeth be tried and found guilty, her fortune would be then seized by the King. As for the King, he wanted a judgement only because if Elizabeth was founded guilty, he would not have to repay her what her own her.
At the end, the King admitted defeat and Elizabeth was walled up inside a small room in a tour of the castle Csejthe, with only a small slit for food and ventilation. Without a trial or a judgement.
The date of death of Elizabeth is unknown, because she was found face down in her cell, by one of her guard. After four years in captivity, she died between the 14th and 21st day of August 1614.
She and her accomplices never revealed the exact number of victims they were responsible for. It is said that there was as many as 650 victims. Young girls dead for wishful thinking.
Maybe one day the number of victims will be known, with the help of the Countess’s diaries, which are kept away by the hungarian government because of the poor conditions they are in.
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