She didn’t just break hearts - she drained them.

👑 Who Was She?

Elizabeth Báthory (born 1560) was a real Hungarian noblewoman, cousin to the king, one of the wealthiest women in Europe, and… allegedly, one of the deadliest female serial killers in history.

By the time she was done?
The legend claims over 650 girls were dead.
And her name? Soaked in blood.

🕯️ The Origin of a Monster

She was born into extreme wealth, intelligence, and power - but also into a family with a reputation for mental illness, cruelty, and occult obsession.

She married a noble at 15.
While her husband was away at war, she ran their vast estate - and that’s when things started… bleeding.

🩸 The Bathing in Blood

The most infamous legend?
That one day, she slapped a servant girl, got blood on her hand - and noticed her skin looked younger after.

So, she decided to go full skincare psychopath.
She began killing girls, draining their blood, and bathing in it.
→ Believing it would preserve her youth.
→ Sometimes she’d drink it.
→ Sometimes she’d mix it with herbs and smear it on like a face mask.

She was the OG anti-aging influencer from hell.

🔪 The Torture Details? They’re Brutal:

⚠️ (Deep breath. Here we go.)

• Girls were stripped, beaten, burned, frozen, starved

• She bit their flesh, stabbed them with needles, and sewed their lips shut

• Some were locked in cages lined with spikes

• Others were covered in honey and left for insects

• Her favourites? Virgin peasant girls. Hundreds of them.

Her castle became a blood spa slash torture dungeon, and everyone in the village knew.

But she was a countess.
So for years?
Nothing happened.

🕵️♀️ The Investigation

Eventually, the number of missing girls couldn’t be ignored.
In 1610, the King sent soldiers to raid her castle.

What they found was pure nightmare fuel:

• Blood on the walls

• Dead girls in the courtyard

• One girl being actively tortured in the dungeon

• And a book allegedly listing all 650 names of her victims
  (Written by Elizabeth herself. Iconic handwriting, horrendous content.)

⚖️ The Sentence

She wasn’t executed.
Because of her noble blood, she was bricked into her bedroom.
Literally.

→ No doors.
→ Just a small hole for food.
→ She died four years later, aged 54, surrounded by the silence of her sins.

🧛♀️ Myth or Truth?

Historians argue:

• Was she really that monstrous?

• Or was she framed by men who feared her power?

Some say the blood-bathing is folklore.
Others say the bodies don’t lie.

What’s true?

👑 She was real.
🔪 She killed.
🩸 And her name still makes the dead shiver.

🔮 Witch Tip:

Power is sacred.
But unchecked, it curdles.

Use your rituals to heal, not harm.
And maybe skip the blood facials. We’ve got crystal-infused soap now, babe.

🖤 Moral of the Story?

The mirror may lie.
But the body count doesn’t.

And beauty bought with blood?
Eventually stains.