Abnormal Psychology / Criminology/ Sociology / Cultural Archaeology / Anthropology
Countess Elizabeth Bathory
"Sweet Countess, beautiful Countess filled with Lust, partaker in sublime perversity, clothed in the deathshade, they have gone forth enshrouded by the night, glowing hazel-brown eyes in the red-waxed candlelight, with fangs and extended claws to draw the life force from their hapless husks. The immortal countess returns..."
Renowned as the most beautiful woman in all the land, "Countess Dracula" is now primarily known for her penchant of bathng in the blood of young girls she kept as servants in her castle, in order to retain and attain her beauty and immortal youth. One day, one of her maidservants was brushing her hair, when she caught a snag - this angered the Countess so much that she snatched the heavy wooden brush from her hand, smacking the girl across the face with it, causing her to bleed from the nose. Elizabeth noticed the remarkable rosey and youthful complexion the blood seemed to provide for her skin... Now, her ingenious cruelty and stern nature were well known, from implementing spiked cages and copious flagellation, but it was this moment of epiphany which began the bloodletting to the point where she would literally bathe in blood, keeping girls barely alive enough to recuperate for her secret "beauty treatments" - the 'scarlet makeover', as it were. These practices were eventually found out by the local government, whereupon she was eventually walled up alive in complete darkness within the recesses of her own castle, where she eventually died, withered.
There, in her own home in the darkness without so much as a looking glass - all that beauty put to waste like a nun until she finally excarnated, but not before uttering one last curse upon her jailors and anyone who would dare deem to judge her.