Which Hungarian noblewoman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries was known as the "Blood Countess"?

It's been suggested that she bathed in the blood of virgins, because she believed that it would keep her young. Also, being bricked up was a common sentence for royalty or noblemen/women who committed crimes considered to be extremely horrific. The place they were bricked into is called an Oubliette, meaning '(little) place of forgetting', as the criminal was often entirely bricked in, and died of dehydration or starvation. in many countries, an Oubliette would have been in the wall of the dining or kitchen chambers as an extra torture. (Finally, a question I know something about! From a paper I wrote, not because I'm a fan!) Hope someone else finds this as interesting as I do.

Massacred 80 but could be 650, that’s quite a jump in guesstimating 🤔

this is who 'the Countess' (portrayed by Lady Gaga) in American Horror Story: Hotel was based on!

It is so sad that nothing was done until she started targeting young noblewomen! SERIOUSLY?! I know it was the attitude of the times but really…where was their humanity?!

Konga Kat (K.M.Beck), she apparently bathed in their blood because she thought it would keep her (and her skin) eternally youthful.

Never heard of her. Had to use the Majority guess. Must be a new question since all comments are from 2021 so far. I'm on level 80.

I remember Ingrid Pitt playing her in a Hammer film

Sad that the Castle in Slovakia is now only ruins

Learnt about this lady from Bailey Sarian on Youtube

Its a wonder there hasn't been a movie made about this Nut!!

Player #51716368, As gruesome as it is...I find myself going down rabbit holes with this type of info. So no ...you are not alone.

Elizabeth bathory

Today was a bit difficult and a bit busy day for me but this was the second thing of this day which really made me content. It's really very much interesting to know about her as I didn't know her ever before 💫

Elizabeth Bathory and Vlad the Impaler were the only 2 real life vampires that ever lived (as far as I know) and apparently they were the inspiration for Dracula

Kit Kat, because of the smell of food and the busy nature of food prep and consumption areas, she was close to people and food.

Pauly #17213494, it’s still the attitude of today! Look at all the missing indigenous and women of Color who are targeted and subjected to violence and murder

Player #51716368, why were the kitchen or dining chambers considered an additional torture?

Oh, she has a very gruesome background. She must have been a psychopath.

Aleksandra, originally she was drinking blood to control her epileptic seizures (at that dark time in medical history, it was considered one of the treatments)

Vic, not anywhere in Africa! Guyana is in South America

Wannabe Vulcan, it’s when she started in with girls of noble families that they finally stopped her.

Dean, there have been, about 10 of them.

Player #51716368, I heard about her on a great podcast called, Noble Blood. They said the same thing, that she bathed in the blood of virgins with the belief it would keep her young.

FLGAL, she was an aristocrat and she was targeting "mere" peasants, so nobody "important". Kind of the way a lot of modern serial killers get away with it longer by "just" going after sex workers.

Dean, there have been a few cheesy horror movies in her dubious honor.

Vic, it wasn’t in Africa. It was in Guyana, which is in South America.

I’d say based on how history has treated women, there is a high probability that she was framed for land, possessions and even titles. But there’s always an exception but if you were betting what would you place the bet on considering the odds?

glad we're not in the middle ages. had she been alive today she could have been treated in psych ward

Tom, look 👀 how many people followed Jim Jones to the middle of no where in Africa and he preached to them while he was high on drugs and told his faithful followers that He is Jesus Christ,,almost 1000 died because of the deranged man,,who was a mass murderer,,

She was also an inspiration for one quest in Diablo II - Act I, The Forgotten Tower. "I przyszedl czas, ze żywcem pogrzebana zostala Hrabina, ktora niedgys kąpała sie w odmladzajacej krwi setek dziewic, a jej zamek, ktory byl swiadkiem wielu strasznych czynow szybko obrocil sie w ruine". I always liked description of this quest, unfortunetely I memorized it only in polish :)

HawaiianShirtGuy, I never heard of this and I am Hungarian.

Player #51716368, Thanks for the info. Interesting

Player #2929570, sounds like my wife.

Player #51716368, ever listen to the podcast Noble Blood? Very interesting and I’m surprised I haven’t heard this story on there. Thanks for your comments.

Player #51716368, I watched a movie which depicted her story and it showed that she actually drank these girls' blood because she thought it would make her stay young forever.

Player #25232914, there is nice countryside around Csachtice castle in beautiful Slovakia.

Only got this one because of the Ghost song that is about her

linnell (she/her), she was under house arrest, and not walled in