Nowadays, women power has many supporters, especially among politically correct intellectuals. Elizabeth Bathory was a powerful, Hungarian noblewoman, born in the 16th century. While popular culture and folklore consider her a serial killer, particularly bloody and cruel, I’ve read various articles that sustain the falsity of the judicial charges. For instance, in July, 2020, the most important Italian daily newspaper, the “Corriere della Sera”, has published a true moral rehabilitation of the bloody countess. More in general, various sources affirm that the false accusations to Elizabeth Bathory are motivated as follows: she was a feminist, and a lesbian, living in a masculinist era; the investigations against the woman were assigned to a male cousin of her, in return of the deletion of a big debt; she was intelligent and with an excellent education, qualities able to raise an irresistible kind of envy; her servants, the best witnesses of her alleged actions, confessed under the effects of torture; the documented 300 witnesses against the countess were mere repetitions of some unverified rumors; her disgrace was necessary to the king of Hungary, who had a huge debt with her family, and had the possibility of acquiring, after a judicial condemnation, the large patrimony of her (Notice: the king never acquired that patrimony). What can I say about that? By one side, no common person seems to need an elitist kind of proto-feminist, given that Elizabeth Bathory was an uncommon person, belonging to a privileged social class, never subject to relevant discriminations. To the other side, on the contrary, the monstrous personality, traditionally attributed to the countess, is a very instructive paradigm, precious for educational purposes.
The page serves to reinforce a milestone of the blog, the warning about political correctness, that is perfectly compatible to devilish crimes, despite of hypocrite, double moral standards. More clearly, I’m sure that the reputation of angel on Earth is not a guarantee of angelic behaviors, and vice versa. Well, the focus of the page is underlining the facts and the circumstances against the moral rehabilitation of countess Bathory. First, according to a resistant, ancient prejudice in favor of the maintenance of purity of noble blood, Elizabeth was the fruit of an incestuous relationship. Of course, there were consequences on her state of health, among which epilepsy, and frequent, violent headaches. At the time, physicians were convinced that the cure for epilepsy was a sort of donation of healthy blood. Thus, more than the superstitions coming from witchery practices, since she was very young, the countess had a “scientific” conviction that virgin’s blood was the key to improve the way she felt. Second, violence and brutality were constant traits among the members of Elizabeth’s family. In effect, despite of a strict censorship in favor of all nobles, some information about her recurrent, terrible behaviors is survived until now. Third, Elizabeth secretly gave birth to a child when she was 13, before her, already decided, marriage with a noble man. The pregnancy came because of a relationship with a servant, who was successively castrated by Elizabeth’s promised husband. Later, the countess had three other sons. For that, the reputation of a lesbian only served to justify her continuous search for female virgins, the sources of the desired healthy blood. Fourth, the countess was rumored of witchery. At the time, witchery and magic were constant presences at noble mansions, with no exceptions, especially among “intellectuals”, such as the countess herself.
It’s time for a conclusion. I think that no one really knows whether Elizabeth Bathory was similar to the vampires of legends, or not. Possibly, she was neither a tiger, nor a lesbian, nor a werewolf, and nor a witch. Nevertheless, I’m convinced that serious historians can’t be sure that the bloody countess was “a religious subversive”, “an educator of young women”, and “a radical feminist”. The mix of the page is a clear demonstration of what is her kind of fame.
File name “Elizabeth Bathory, a politically correct monster, by Max Look DJ (Feb 2025)”, 1 hour and 22’ of tracks about Elizabeth Bathory, mostly of the metal rock genre. Honestly, I fell into the temptation of mixing the tracks on the beat, including the ones belonging to doom metal.
Noble but bloody, the playlist:
Karliene – blood countess (2018)
Countess – the wrath of Satan’s whore (1995)
Electric Wizard – Torquemada 71 (2007)
Meg Myers – desire (2015)
Siouxsie and the Banshees – an execution (1986)
Kings of Leon – closer (2008)
Jenny Hval – female vampire (2016)
Bathory – woman of dark desire (1987)
Behemoth – Transylvania Forest (1993)
Candlemass – the bleeding baroness (2009)
Cradle of Filth – desire in violent overture (1998)
Evile – bathe in the blood (2007)
Tormentor – Elisabeth Bathory (1989)
Dissection – Elizabeth Bathory (1996)
Kamelot – Elizabeth II: requiem for the innocent (2001)
Ghost – Elizabeth (2010)
Decibel – contessa (2004)
Necrodeath – countess Bathory (2007)
Black Sabbath – evil woman (1970)
Misfits – vampire girl (2015)
Forever Slave – Erzebet Bathory’s song (2003)
