According to the testimony given by servants who acted as her accomplices in these crimes and kept her secrets for years, she killed between 30 and young women. No one is sure of the actual number, as the numbers offered by her alleged accomplices during her trial ranged greatly. Other servants claimed that she stuffed corpses under a bed and continued to feed them as if they were still alive for days.
One servant claimed that she forced burning rods into the mouths and even vaginas of the girls she tortured. Originally built in the 13th century, the castle served several noble families before meeting its demise. Next, the Stibor of Stiboricz possessed it as one of his 31 castles. The castle is a ruin, but was restored to safe conditions and reopened to the public in You can enjoy a beautiful panorama of the Carpathian Mountains and the town from the castle.
We and our partners use cookies to better understand your needs, improve performance and provide you with personalised content and advertisements. Can you tell me about Bathory's trial?
This is where things get interesting because it was, basically, a show trial. The people who testified against her were the servants and family of her late husband. These were people who would be in power if she hadn't been running the family empire.
They resented the fact that a woman was in power. This is crucial. Powerful women were seen as unnatural and this is true all over Europe at that time. And she was a widow, no less. I'll tell you, lots of people identify with Bathory as a strong woman who was simply betrayed and conspired against. I've read her letters, and she was a very intelligent woman who often bullied men who tried to threaten her. There were plenty of people with reasons to frame her.
It's very possible she was tough and possibly cruel, but essentially innocent. This is the room Bathory was alleged bricked up in. You can see there is actually a bricked up doorway here, although Tony believes this was probably didn't happen. So what happened to her after the trial? Well, you just couldn't put someone who was second only to the royal family on public trial.
So instead her closest servants were put in the dock. And the evidence was read out and they were condemned and executed. Then Bathory was imprisoned in her castle. She probably wasn't walled up in her tower, which some people claim, but she was imprisoned in the castle for the last years of her life. She died a few years later, at the age of Do you think she was guilty?
What's frustrating is that there's no absolute evidence that she committed these crimes. The claim she was bathing in the blood of virgins only appeared in the records years after her death, and that was from a Catholic priest who revived the story to discredit her. There were no personal letters written between aristocrats talking about her. They all talk about each other, but not her! The more I look into it, the more uncertain it all seems.
In your mind, what's the most compelling evidence of her guilt? The one thing that raises doubts for me is if they wanted to frame her, why did they choose mass murder? That's the key question. Why not frame her for witchcraft? That was a far more common accusation in those days.
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