Countess Bathory was Hungarian by birth. Records give her entry into the world as I56I. As a girl she was beautiful with long fair hair and an exquisite complexion. She was married off to an aristocratic soldier when she was fifteen and became mistress of the Castle of Csejthe in the Carpathians. Life in the dark, gloomy Csejthe Castle, while her husband was away on his various military campaigns, became very boring indeed. She …
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…able to slip throught their hands. At her hearing in 1610 it was said she had murdered 6oo girls. Dorka and her witches were burnt at the stake. The Countess escaped execution because of her noble birth. But she was condemned to a living death - walled up in a tiny room of her castle and kept alive by scraps of food pushed through the bars. She died four years later without a word of remorse.