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Lydia
Lydia
8 years ago

She whipped young peasant girls to death and was only stopped when she did the same to high born girls taking shelter with her during a journey. How can this be vindicated? That she didn’t do this after all? IIRC, it was a well known proclivity that only went over the line when she chose the wrong victims.

Hitch
8 years ago
Reply to  Lydia

Nothing says “vindicated” like Kirsten font, the successor-in-interest to Comic Sans. You BETCHA, Bathory Babe!

Catie
Catie
8 years ago
Reply to  Lydia

I thought the whole story was fishy, especially the witness accounts, but there’s no way of knowing after so many years :(.

Lydia
Lydia
8 years ago
Reply to  Catie

The part of the legend I always thought fishy was the bathing in the blood of young girls to prolong her youth thing. She probably just got covered in it while vigorously beating people.

Tuula
Tuula
8 years ago
Reply to  Catie

There is a new theory that the whole accusation was manufactured by an enemy – not sure how solid a theory or anything, but came across the headline somewhere.

Catie
Catie
8 years ago
Reply to  Tuula

I didn’t go past the Wikipedia article, and it was a while ago so I don’t remember all the details, but what struck me as odd was that the witness accounts were very different. The number of victims varied from 36 to 650.

katz
8 years ago

So who decided that this was the “definitive story?”

Grackle
Grackle
8 years ago

Adding insult to injury with those godawful fonts. Just horrendous, all of it.

Decca
Decca
8 years ago

That painting is one of several versions entitled “Sin” painted by the German artist Franz Stuck. It’s supposed to be Eve with the serpent. But then I always get Biblical women confused with notorious mass murderers.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
8 years ago

I don’t get it. “Countess of the Moon” should be the backside. This is more like “Countess of the Flash”. Should we throw Mardi Gras beads?

RK
RK
8 years ago

Because… bewbs!

Catie
Catie
8 years ago

Bewbs!

L-Plate Pen
L-Plate Pen
8 years ago

COUNTESS: “Behold, my boobs! NOW I feel vindicated!”
SNAKE: “Yeah!”

Kregger
Kregger
8 years ago

I was thinking more transgender, but that would be an insult to the LGBT society. Did someone photoshop the face, or is this a body-double thangy.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
8 years ago

Decca noted the artist above, Franz Stuck. Finding the original painting, Die Sünde (The Sin), 1893, that’s how he painted Eve. In the original, the face was in dark shadows with the serpent’s head on her shoulder, but the body in bright light.

Nicola Cuti
8 years ago

Not a bad cover at all. It intrigues. The title is a bit vague since it doesn’t directly conjure up Elizabeth Bathory but the blurb is interesting. Sympathy for the Devil?