It's time for another macabre video for October.


Today we’re heading back to the early seventeenth century to look at the life of an individual who is said by some to have been the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a woman who came to be known as the “Blood Countess”.


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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [   • Greenery – Silent Partner (No Copyrig...  ]


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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):


A view of Ecsed Castle in 1688, engraved by Gottfried Prixner of Pest on the basis of the appendix to the contemporary work "Das ehmals gedrückte, vom Türken berückte, nun trefflich erquickte Königreich Hungarn” (1688). Held by the Bavarian State Library.


Achievement of arms of the House of Báthory, drawn by Wereszczyński (2021)


Red marble coat of arms of the family from 1484 photographed by Szilas (2021)


Portrait of Elizabeth Báthory by an unknown Zay artist (c.1630). Probably a copy of the other painting, which is at the Hungarian National Museum, in Budapest (also made by Zay). Mentioned in the Magyar Várak book, page 34.


Portrait of Count Ferenc Nadasdy by an unknown painter (17th century). Held by the Hungarian National Museum.


Copy of a now lost portrait of Countess Elizabeth Báthory from 1585 by an unknown artist (late 16th century). Held in an unknown collection.


Portrait of King Matthias as Archduke, with a baton by Lucas van Valckenborch (1583). Held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum.


Portrait of György Thurzó, Palatine of Hungary by an unknown artist.


Aerial photograph of Čachtice Castle, Slovakia. © Civertan Grafikai Stúdió (Civertan Bt.), 19972006.; http://www.civertan.hu/


Photograph of the Castle ruins in Čachtice, Slovak republic, taken by Radovan Bahna (2006).


A painting of Elizabeth Báthory, a Hungarian noblewoman who according to popular culture regularly bathed in blood by Alex Zak (2018)


Quoted texts:


History Collection online article: https://historycollection.com/realco...


Screenshot from Guinness World Records: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...


Portrait of Ferdinand II, who would become Holy Roman Emperor by an unknown artist from Upper Austria (c.1614). Held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum.


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