#Báthori

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Báthori sisakkal

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[weirdlookindog]

Erzsébet Báthory - Contes immoraux (1973)

[illusivesoulgaming]

"A daughter? How delicious"

[my-beautiful-wickedness]

Countess Erzsebet Báthory

[carmillas-vampiric-rage]

Who the Fuck is Erzebet?!?!? (the vampire not the murderer)

I don't know.... there's something off about her. i mean clearly, erzebet is a genocidal-torturing-murdering madwoman who wants all to worship her bc she's a "goddess". but is she tho?

like- stay with me on this. her entire story just seems.. off. it just feels so weird and contrived and strange. like she obviously succeeded in blotting out the sun and transforming into a creepy lion lady but- why is this the first time we're ever hearing of her? if she's been alive since Sekhmet- why the fuck hasn't she decided "oh hey i'm a god- i'm gonna take over the world in 410 instead of 1746 (or whatever the year is in nocturne)"

like why didn't she challenge dracula to a du-du-duel to show the world she is a goddess? why didn't the belmonts or alucard or fucking dracula or carmilla herself ever mention that one vampire who's also kind of a god and wants everyone to know.

idk.. like obviously most of this can be chocked up to they probably didn't have nocturne even in their minds at the time of castlevania or they just had very few ideas. and fair enough, that's totally fine, i can absolutely look past that...

what i CAN'T look past is the fact that every seen erzebet is in, every character who talks about her in adoration, every chance she mentions she's a god and drank Sekment's blood- just feels suspicious. i feel like she's lying. i feel like there's something even more dark and disturbing and creepy about who she is that we'll find out about later.

I just don't believe erzebet. I don't believe what the show is telling us. I don't think she's a god. I think everyone else thinks she's a god. I think she's convinced herself she's a god after so many years. but i think there's something else there. something creepier. something more unnerving.

if i had to guess- i think she took some sort of old magic to get the powers she has. or made some deal with a demon or something to be able to literally blot out the sun. but one way or the other, i think erzsebet has clearly and utterly lost her mind and any sense of reality. she's beautifully and dangerously unhinged.

I'm genuinely so excited to see what happens next with erzsebet. she's a fascinating character and one of the first villains i can remember genuinely unnerving me. she's horrifying but i also can't stop looking at her. like lowkey I'd probably worship the devourer of light too.

[alpaca-clouds]

One Quick Thing about the historical Elisabeth Báthory

Okay, I do need to talk about the historical Elisabeth Báthory, because my inner "well, actually" needs to get this one out there. People who watched Nocturne will probably be at least vaguely aware of the entire mythology around the historical Elisabeth Báthory and how she got connected to the entire story.

She was a Hungarian noblewoman and the reason why she is remembered while most Hungarian nobles are not is the entire outrage around her alleged crimes.

The story goes somewhat like this: Elisabeth Báthory was very afraid of growing old. One day one of her maids cut herself and the blood dripped on Báthory's skin. Which on the next day was so much smoother. After which she became convinced that the blood of girls and young women would hold her aging. So, she had girls brought to her castle to bleed them dry and then bathe in their blood.

It is said she killed more than 300 young women like this, which she was charged with. Given she was a noble she was actually convicted for it, but given she was a noble, the punishment was only "house arrest" in her castle. Never the less she died just three years later of unknown (but probably medical) causes at the age of 54.

So, here is the thing why I want to talk about this. Now, please note: I do not think this will play any role in Castlevania: Nocturne. I think there she really just is a bad guy. But... I just gotta talk about it.

Because today scholars are at times questioning whether the story how it often is remembered. There is a by now very common theory that the reason for her accusations were two-fold: For one, she was a single woman who held a lot of money and power. For the other, she was practicing medicine, learning it partly from herbal practicioners, but also incorporating "modern" knowledge at the time.

Basically, she was already rich because her husband was rich. Then she just happened to be very good at politics, making her - as a widow - amass more power and riches. And people looked unfavorably onto her as a woman having this much influence and riches without a man attached to her.

The other aspect is, that we know she wrote about medicine. She did medical research on her own. And yes, even though she incorporated more herbal knowledge (something people frowned upon at the time, by the way), a lot of medical knowledge at the time also involved a lot of bloodletting. And there is some historical sources out there that show that at least some folks she tried to treat died through her treatment.

So, I got this one out of my system. I just needed to bring this one up. Because the two big historical serial killers we know about might well both have been innocent. The other being Gilles de Rais, who also is the main antagonist in my Castlevania fanfiction The lesser Evil (which you should totally read) - but there it also is a plotpoint that he was innocent.

Okay. That's it for now. I am out.

[marejadilla]

Agostino Arrivabene, "Ematofaga I" (Elizabeth Báthory), 2014, oil on ancient wood. Born in Rivolta d’Adda in 1967, lives and works in Gradella di Pandino (CR).

[jupiterovprsten]

Erzsébet Bridge, Budapest

[borntolatetohaveaname]

Behind every evil gay person there's another, more evil gay person

[amechyofsorts]

I feel like people are are kinda missing the point when they make the criticism of "Why do the vampire villains in Castlevania want to block out the sun? That would kill the living things which blood they need".

With Dracula it was obvious. He didn't care about what happened to rest of the vampirekind after, he was just madly lashing out in anger and depressions.

Erzsebet meanwhile is deluded to thinking she's literally a goddess, talking about the moon and sun being her sister and father, literal gods as well, so to her the logic of her actions is likely entirely secondary to just doing it in the name of imposing god-like rule upon the world with her power.

[rattlesnake1999]

Erzsebet Bathory render (Castlevania Nocturne)

[prettynerdieworks]

[growing-fire]

My favorite piece of vampire lore in Carmilla is the fact that she sleeps in her coffin submerged in blood like a vampire pickle.

[warrior-cat-pride]

Frostpaw and Moonpaw with a combination of my fictionkin flags

First flag Erzsebet Báthory fictionkin

Aemond Targaryen fictionkin flag

[carmillas-vampiric-rage]

I can't tell if carmilla would love erzsebet bc- ✨woman, power✨- or hate her bc she'd have to worship her.

like their fight for power and control of the world would be legendary oh my god

[moucat-owo]

tw// blood lotta blood 😱

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“I'll rise up from the blood of mortals.”

Actor from my Wonderland au!

Kinda referred to CARRIE and Báthori Erzsébet... At least I tried🥲