The Blood Queen of Hungary: Elizabeth Bathory Figure

The Blood Queen of Hungary: Elizabeth Bathory Figure

The McFarlane's Monsters line continues in 2004 with Series 3! This line represents a twisted new take on "Faces of Madness". These McFarlane action figures include: Billy The Kid, Rasputin, Vlad The Impaler, Elizabeth Bathory, Atilla The Hun, Jack The Ripper. Recommended for mature collectors. Figures are approximately 7 inches tall. The third series of the McFarlane's Monsters action figure line focuses on the past: A historical look back at some of the human race's most notorious blood-letters and miscreants. Incredibly detailed and fully accessorized, McFarlane's Monsters 3 gives new meaning to the term monster. The Blood Queen of Hungary, who struck terror throughout that region in the late 1500s and early 1600s, and is said to have killed more than 600 young women. A member of the ruling class, Bathory tortured servants throughout her life. Later, with concern for her fading beauty, she began bathing in the blood of slaughtered young girls as a perverse form of a fountain of youth. McFarlane's Monsters series 3: Elizabeth Bathory

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- Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (Alžbeta Bátoriová in Slovak, Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian, 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a countess from the renowned Báthory family. Although in modern times she has been labelled the most prolific female serial killer in history, evidence of her alleged crimes is scant and her guilt is debated. She is nevertheless remembered as the "Blood Countess" or "Bloody Lady of Čachtice", after the castle near Trenčín in Slovakia (formerly known as Trencsén in the Kingdom of Hungary) where she spent most of her adult life.

Later writings about the case have 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.