Elizabeth Bathory

According to legend, Erzsébet Báthory (Isabel, in Spanish), was a cruel serial killer obsessed with beauty, who used the blood of her young maids and pupils to stay young at a time when a 44-year-old woman was dangerously close to old age. The legend says that Isabel saw a decrepit old woman as she passed through a town and mocked her, and the old woman, in response to her mockery, cursed her, telling her that the noblewoman would also grow old and look like her one day.

was a Hungarian aristocrat, belonging to one of the most powerful families in Hungary. She has gone down in history for having been accused and convicted of being responsible for a series of crimes motivated by her obsession with beauty that have earned her the nickname of the Bloody Countess: she is the greatest murderer in the history of humanity, with 650 deaths.

It all started in 1604, shortly after the death of her husband. One of her teenage maids involuntarily pulled her hair while she was combing her hair, which led to a hard slap from the countess that caused the maid's nose to bleed (who up to this point would have been lucky, since the normal thing between the Slavic nobility of the time would have been to take her out into the courtyard to receive a hundred strokes of the cane for that carelessness). But when her blood splashed on Isabel's skin, it seemed to her that where she had fallen from her, her wrinkles disappeared and her skin regained its youthful freshness. The countess, fascinated, thought that she had found the solution to old age, and that she could always stay beautiful and young in this way. After consulting her witches and alchemists, and with the help of the butler Thorko and the corpulent Dorottya, they stripped the girl, slit her throat, and filled a basin with her blood. Isabel bathed in the blood, or at least smeared it all over her body to regain her youth.