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.
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.
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.
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.
So who decided that this was the “definitive story?”
Grackle
10 years ago
Adding insult to injury with those godawful fonts. Just horrendous, all of it.
Decca
10 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
10 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
10 years ago
Because… bewbs!
Catie
10 years ago
Bewbs!
L-Plate Pen
10 years ago
COUNTESS: “Behold, my boobs! NOW I feel vindicated!”
SNAKE: “Yeah!”
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
10 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.
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?
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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.
Nothing says “vindicated” like Kirsten font, the successor-in-interest to Comic Sans. You BETCHA, Bathory Babe!
I thought the whole story was fishy, especially the witness accounts, but there’s no way of knowing after so many years :(.
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.
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.
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.
So who decided that this was the “definitive story?”
Adding insult to injury with those godawful fonts. Just horrendous, all of it.
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.
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?
Because… bewbs!
Bewbs!
COUNTESS: “Behold, my boobs! NOW I feel vindicated!”
SNAKE: “Yeah!”
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.
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.
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?