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I guess most of you here have heard something of the hungarian Countess Bathory, who seems to have been the closest thing to a real vampire and who was accused of the murder and torture of hundreds of young slovak and hungarian peasant girls and for using their blood to bathe in it and make herself eternally young and beautiful or at least she tried to get that from the blood of young murdered girls.She was found guilty and sentenced to immurement in part of her castle,where she died after a few years. Many of you may have seen or should see the wonderful Hammer classic horror Countess Dracula or perhaps one of the other films made about her, but there is this one slovak film from a few years ago which tells her story quite differently and supports a popular conspiracy theory according to which she was framed and the victim of a plot by habsburgs and other political enemies and rivals of this ambitious and rather disloyal hungarian aristocratic family, which has an important role in transylvanian history too. Romanian great prince Michael clashed with relatives of here, who were in charge in the principality. Anyway, what do some of you, and especially hungarians and slovaks, know or think about her and this version of her story that has her as victim and not ghoul?
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