How Did Elizabeth Bathory Affect The Vampire Mythos?
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Mention Elizabeth Bathory to anyone and they will all maintain to know her as the vampire countess who used to bathe in the blood of virgins to maintain her youth. While the blood bathing association only crept up on her in later years, it has so enmeshed itself into the vampire mythos as if it had always been true. To say that Bathory had a monumental impact on the vampire mythos would be nothing short of an understatement, though Elizabeth Bathory lived in the sixteenth century, accounts of her life continue to enrich the vampire genre to this very day. Elizabeth Bathory was born to a prominent family in Hungary and while by all accounts lived a relatively unremarkable married life, she is infamous for her penchant and cruelty which only