The Blood Countess: Erzsébet Báthory and the Castle at Čachtice
In the winter of 1610, men opened a castle in the Kingdom of Hungary and found girls who were still alive — and girls who were not. The owner was Countess Erzsébet Báthory, one of the most powerful women in the realm. History would call her the Blood Countess. The file never quite settled whether she was a killer, a myth, or a problem the crown needed gone.
Alexander Lawson follows the raid on Čachtice, the tortured confessions of her servants, the hearsay of six hundred and fifty names, and the blood-bath legend that does not appear in the original papers. What can be sworn in 1611, and what…
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