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Elizabeth Bathoryby *GENZOMAN

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Hi There guys! this one is a old commission from around mid 2009 for a vampire set on a TCG... This time another chara linked to the vapire myths. The loved and hated Elizabeth Bathory, aka, the blood countess(maybe you remember her as Elizabeth Bartley on Castlevania: Bloodlines). I done a previous version of her a couple of years ago (the pic is on the gallery) a more, human version, so this one is a more vampire/demon version, hope you like it

PSCS/Bamboo/8hours/music: We Suck Young Blood - Radiohead (appropriated I think, lol)
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well enought chat and there goes the wiki attack!

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Countess Elizabeth Báthory (Erzebet Bathory August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a countess from the renowned Báthory family. She is possibly the most prolific female serial killer in history and is remembered as the "Blood Countess" and as the "Bloody Lady of Čachtice," after the castle near Trencsén (today Trenčín) in the Kingdom of Hungary, (today's Slovakia), where she spent most of her adult life.

After her husband's death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and young women, with one witness attributing to them over 600 victims, though the number for which she was convicted was 80. In 1610, she was imprisoned in the Csejte Castle, where she remained bricked in a set of rooms until her death four years later.

The case has led to legendary accounts of the Countess bathing in the blood of virgins in order to retain her youth and subsequently also to comparisons with Vlad III the Impaler of Wallachia, on whom the fictional Count Dracula is partly based, and to modern nicknames of the Blood Countess and Countess Dracula, also linked to the vampire folklore.

~SteamHead1880 Apr 2, 2013 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

I know her, she's also known as the female Dracula! Really twisted she is.

~Morkt Mar 7, 2013 Student

me encantó la señorita bathory, ta muy genial, bien logrado (y)

~Nerdy-Viking Feb 13, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Oh the blood queen, her legend is on par of that of Vlad Tepes aka Vlad Dracula. I never quite understood why in modern myth everyone made her the Bride of Dracula seeing as these two very headstrong and oppiste minded individuals would have tried to kill each other outright. Ce la vie?