Elizabeth Bathory Research Paper

Elizabeth Bathory: a human vampire?

From childhood we have heard thousands of stories of monsters, vampires, chupacabras, omnis, etc.. but bearing in mind they are a fantasy. Generation after generation continues repeating these stories to entertain and sometimes to frighten our acquaintances. They are stories full of imagination that we try to turn them into reality using strange events occurring around us. Many think that these characters are fictional but for others they are as real as the air. Vampires are one of the great stories of our history, people who drink human blood. The famous movie Twilight has become the fearful vampires into something modern and fun! A great love story that is not taught the reality of what a vampire is,
She came from one of the wealthiest families in Transylvania. Elizabeth was extremely well educated and able to speak several languages. When she was five years old, began to suffer from violent seizures perhaps the reason she later became so gruesome. Elizabeth was a very vain and spiteful woman, as well as very beautiful. At the age of 15 she married for political gain and position to a rough soldier of (nevertheless) aristocratic stock and manner with Count Ferencz Nadasdy. The count changed his surname to Bathory, so the countess could kept her name. They resided in Hungary at Castle Cachtice. Her husband spent much of his time away fighting in wars, earning the nickname of ‘The Black Hero of
There is no doubt that Elizabeth had these aggressive natural tendencies within her, but what drew the line for her when it came to controlling her impulses? Perhaps Elizabeth herself was a victim, a victim of her own urges. To have carried out such acts Elizabeth must have surely been insane? This is the typical viewpoint upon Elizabeth, but the truth is and perhaps one of her most chilling features was that she although quick to anger was very logical and calculating. Within us all there is some primitive holdout of the darkest recesses or our psyche. It is our primal self within, as some contemporary paleopsychologists say, the vestigial beast that got us through the ‘survival of the fittest’ when we needed it, but now that we live in a civilized society, it is no longer needed. Could this of been the source of Elizabeth urges? Had there been anything that has divided her form conquering these primal instincts that had them create into a new monstrous form that was the cause of these urges of torture and bloodlust? Most of Elizabeth family showed aggressive and sadistic tendencies. One of her cousins even became a ruling prince of Transylvania and had the noses and ears cut off fifty-four culprits of a rebellion under the shadow of the gallows. Within her family there are regular