https://padlet.com/alexanderjurscak/fd3i4ddah686 A.R.Jurscak en-us 2018-05-25 08:59:34 UTC 2023-03-03 18:55:08 UTC hello@padlet.com alexanderjurscak https://padlet.com/alexanderjurscak/fd3i4ddah686/wish/263580833 2018-05-25 09:03:23 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderjurscak/fd3i4ddah686/wish/263580833 alexanderjurscak https://padlet.com/alexanderjurscak/fd3i4ddah686/wish/263581039 Hungarian noblewoman and alleged murderer from the Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Hungary and Slovakia) and Transylvania (now Romania), which were areas of Habsburg monarchy. She has been labelled by Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer,though the precise number of her victims is debated. Báthory and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of young women between 1585 and 1609.]]> 2018-05-25 09:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderjurscak/fd3i4ddah686/wish/263581039 alexanderjurscak https://padlet.com/alexanderjurscak/fd3i4ddah686/wish/263581883 2018-05-25 09:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderjurscak/fd3i4ddah686/wish/263581883 alexanderjurscak https://padlet.com/alexanderjurscak/fd3i4ddah686/wish/263583115 2018-05-25 09:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderjurscak/fd3i4ddah686/wish/263583115 alexanderjurscak https://padlet.com/alexanderjurscak/fd3i4ddah686/wish/263583229 The stories of her serial murders and brutality are verified by the testimony of more than 300 witnesses and survivors as well as physical evidence and the presence of horribly mutilated dead, dying and imprisoned girls found at the time of her arrest. Stories describing her vampire-like tendencies (most famously the tale that she bathed in the blood of virgins to retain her youth) were generally recorded years after her death, and are considered unreliable. ]]> 2018-05-25 09:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderjurscak/fd3i4ddah686/wish/263583229 alexanderjurscak https://padlet.com/alexanderjurscak/fd3i4ddah686/wish/263583373 Her story quickly became part of national folklore, and her infamy persists to this day. She is often compared with Vlad the Impaler of Wallachia (on whom the fictional Count Dracula is partly based), having contributed some of the mythos to the Dracula legend herself.[citation needed] Nicknames and literary epithets attributed to her include The Blood Countess and Countess Dracula.]]> 2018-05-25 09:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/alexanderjurscak/fd3i4ddah686/wish/263583373