In January 1611 one of the highest-born members of the Hungarian nobility, Countess Erzsebet Bathory, was walled inside her castle tower and imprisoned for the rest of her life. Her servants were taken away, tortured, put on trial, and then executed as accomplices to the countess’s crimes: the torture and murder of at least 35 women and girls, mostly servants in the countess’s employ. Erzsebet Bathory herself...
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