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She was a woman that was a mass murderer!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Countess Bathory was an Eastern European noblewoman who murdered many, many young women and bathed in and drank their blood!. She thought it would keep her young and beautiful forever!. Because she was a noblewoman, when the other nobles found out, they couldn't kill her, so she was walled up in a room and left to starve to death or die of thirst!. She ended up being one of the sources for some of Bram Stoker's Dracula!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Niece of Stephen Bathori, King of Poland ,wife of Count Nadasdy of Hungary!. Nearest person in history to a female Dracula, in 1610 she was discovered to have tortured and murdered 650 young girls so that she could keep her youth and beauty by bathing in their warm blood!. Her accomplices were burnt at the stake and in 1614 she was walled up alive in her castle at Csej!.Www@QuestionHome@Com